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Armed Forces: Resilience - Motion to Take Note (26 Jan 2023)

Earl Attlee: ...since that date. The House will recognise that there will be a range of erroneous reasons why the Putin regime thought the time was right to invade Ukraine. Among these are—to some extent—Brexit, the accompanying instability and a weak UK Government caused by a hopelessly divided Conservative Party. The United States has its own problems. So far as the UK is concerned, there is also...

EEA Nationals (Indefinite Leave to Remain) Bill [HL] - Second Reading (19 Jul 2019)

Earl Attlee: ...an increase in GDP. However, we also need to remember that it does not necessarily increase GDP per capita. That might be part of our problem with it. I have one question for my noble friend. Post Brexit, which EU state will become subject to visa controls? France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Holland or Portugal? I think not. So which of the other states will it be? At some time in the...

NATO - Motion to Take Note ( 2 Apr 2019)

Earl Attlee: ...House of the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Robertson, regarding the need for a free press. The noble Lord, Lord Bilimoria, mentioned the air defence problems. Some noble Lords have touched on Brexit in the context of NATO and I am sure that they are right to do so. However, while the EU will never have anything like the role of NATO, not least because it does not include the United...

Brexit: Arrangements for EU Citizens - Statement ( 5 Nov 2018)

Earl Attlee: My Lords, is it not the case that post-Brexit, we will be able to allow anyone whom we want to have in the UK to live and work here? Is it not also the case that we will not need to put visa controls on EU citizens if we do not want to and we want to have them here?

Data Protection Bill [HL] - Commons Amendments (14 May 2018)

Earl Attlee: ...write to me—and perhaps to my noble friend Lord Black—to assure us that the appropriate officials are aware of the risk of negotiating away our freedom to zero-rate online publications post Brexit? Much of the debate on Section 40 has centred on state regulation of the press. At the moment, unfortunately, we have covert state regulation because anyone in government, particularly...

Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Bill [HL] - Report (17 Apr 2018)

Earl Attlee: ...noble Lords opposite said and there is very little that I take issue with. They made very good points indeed. But my position is that we are sending Her Majesty’s Government in to negotiate the Brexit deal. The last thing that we want to do is unnecessarily to tie the hands of our negotiators and perhaps find out at the last moment that that hand-tying exercise has compromised our...

NATO: Member State Spending - Question for Short Debate ( 1 Feb 2017)

Earl Attlee: ..., so we have decided to bring back a maritime patrol aircraft capability—but overall, we have a very good record of capability management and having a balanced capability. Everything has a Brexit dimension nowadays. According to a calculation done on my behalf by the Library, without the UK, the EU 27 will spend only 1.18% of GDP on defence. The noble Lord, Lord Clark, put it slightly...

Brexit: Armed Forces and Diplomatic Service - Motion to Take Note ( 8 Dec 2016)

Earl Attlee: ...the way, multinational battlegroups are political units and not military units. It seems that the more recent accession states, which get the most excited about pure free movement in the context of Brexit, are the very same states which are most reliant on the UK’s military muscle. With the exception of Poland and Estonia, they mostly fail dismally in terms of percentage of GDP spent on...

Policing and Crime Bill - Committee (4th Day) ( 9 Nov 2016)

Earl Attlee: ...due course a Government will future-proof it, and then we will be able to do what we want. In the meantime, we can comply with our EU obligations, which of course we have to comply with. Although Brexit means Brexit, we have to comply at the moment. We will get a good solution—we are in a good place on this, and of course there is no question that I will oppose Clause 114. In the...

Policing and Crime Bill - Committee (4th Day) ( 9 Nov 2016)

Earl Attlee: ...the effect sought from new Section 8A(4)(c) of the 1988 Act? Initially the regulations might be based on the EU legislation in order to keep us compliant with our EU obligations. If and when Brexit happens, the regulations under the order can easily be changed so that we revert to solely the UK deactivation regime, which will still keep us completely safe. Bearing in mind our time...

Brexit: Foreign and Security Policy Co-operation - Motion to Take Note (20 Oct 2016)

Earl Attlee: ..., not least because I am confident that he would tell me something I did not want to hear. I think that it would be helpful to the House if I give some indication of where I am coming from in the Brexit debate. While I am deeply Eurosceptic, I voted remain. We have had more than 60 years of grand strategic stability in western Europe with all the international chess pieces carefully laid...

Policing and Crime Bill - Second Reading (Continued) (18 Jul 2016)

Earl Attlee: ...the right type of firearms certificate will pay a lot more money for a serviceable firearm than a deactivated one, but it was worth it for the reassurance. The Prime Minister has always said that Brexit means Brexit, but she said it after this Bill had been drafted. I have not got fully to the root of this issue, but it appears that Clause 114 seeks to include any EU regulation or...

Outcome of the European Union Referendum - Motion to Take Note (Continued) ( 6 Jul 2016)

Earl Attlee: ...I was very pleased to have the opportunity to vote on this matter, I decided to vote remain. This was, first, because we have enough on our international plate now, without having to manage a Brexit. Secondly, it was for our long-term, grand strategic interests. We need to have a locus at the centre of Europe, not just to ensure that we can have curved bananas, but so that, when Europe has...


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