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Lord Morris of Aberavon: ...spent over half of my adult life at the criminal Bar, and I am deeply aware of the necessity to respond to the needs of justice as problems arise. When I became Attorney-General, the CPS was in a mess on a number of issues. I invited a distinguished retired judge, Lord Justice Glidewell, to chair an inquiry in which the noble Lord, Lord Dear, played an important part. I am not suggesting...
Ivan McKee: ...to any borders in or around the island of Ireland, which is a circle that cannot be squared while meeting its requirement of a hard Brexit. The latest episode is that of the leaked letter from David Davis. For the record, I must say that I am not surprised that the EU is surprised that the UK Government is surprised that the EU is preparing for an outcome that the UK Government has itself...
David Hanson: ...a mechanism to give financial support to them to buy the freehold would be an extremely good contribution. I welcome what the Minister has done so far. I know that we are in a pickle and a mess, although in a way I am relieved to hear that the problem affects not just people in Delyn and north Wales, but many others. There are real challenges for the people who are in this mess, and the...
Hefin David: ...payments to avoid unfair sanctions over Christmas, but, unlike some who want to devolve for the sake of devolution, I don't believe it's for the Welsh Government to use its budget to clean up the mess that's been created by the UK Government. If the Welsh Government were to take on administrative responsibility for benefits and welfare policy without the necessary additional funding from...
David Lidington: I apologise to you, Mr Speaker, if there was a mess-up in communications with your office. In response to my hon. Friend, as we test and pilot the online court proposals it is important to ensure that the process is stripped of legal jargon so that our constituents—men and women who may have no particular knowledge or experience of the technicalities of law—are able easily to understand,...
Hywel Williams: ...I have no responsibility at all for things Welsh.” Apparently he was wrong, because although health was devolved, nurses’ pay was not. That is just a small example of the complications to which messing around with the reserved-powers model might lead. The reserved-powers approach was endorsed by the UK Government following the long-drawn-out St David’s day process, on the grounds...
David Linden: Given the mess that the United Kingdom Government are currently in regarding the situation in Ireland, I am not sure that a Member from the governing party lecturing us on borders necessarily suggests the right frame of mind at the moment. The calls for immigration to be devolved do not necessarily come from the SNP, although we support them; they come from civic Scotland. Let me quote...
Dan Jarvis: ...know it. Mary lived in Glasgow, and politics meant as little to her as it does to some of the people most disillusioned with our politics today, but in 1914 something changed. Mary’s husband, David, went to fight on the frontline and she was left alone at home with their two young boys. With so many men away on the frontline, the city’s private landlords sensed an opportunity and...
Emily Thornberry: ...all the jokes have worn just a bit thin of late. I am nevertheless glad that the Foreign Secretary is leading today’s debate. Back in March he acknowledged how rare that was, because never under David Cameron’s Government did a Foreign Secretary lead a Budget debate. In the first two Budgets under the new Prime Minister and Chancellor, however, the Foreign Secretary has been given that...
Tobias Ellwood: ...aspect of the Air Force came into being. My hon. Friend and others spoke about the huge loss and sacrifice that was made, and about the stoicism of individual pilots. In some cases, they paid their mess bills before they left, not knowing whether they would return the next night. Because of their commitment to duty, crews were unable to grieve and appreciate the loss of their friends until...
David Lloyd: ...feel exploited, overworked, pressurised into working extra shifts to plug rota gaps, always having to fight for time off to study, to sit exams or to do research. Doctors have lost their doctors’ mess, where they used to talk with colleagues about issues, on call. They’re no longer in fixed teams, the old firm has gone—they’re always on call with different doctors. There are never...
Lord Kennedy of Southwark: ...only to look at today’s newspapers to see the shambles the Government are in: Philip Hammond complaining about being briefed against and being outed for his ridiculous comments; Boris Johnson and David Davis fighting over who will succeed the Prime Minister, who has been fatally wounded by the appalling general election she ran—it is a matter of when she steps down in this Parliament,...
Lord Smith of Leigh: ...pilots are meant to teach us things, but how can we learn if we do not know when that will happen? We need to see what we can get from those. The other issue around business rates is of course the mess the Government got into of their own making on valuations. I remember arguing with the Government—it always seemed to be at 11 pm—along with my noble friend Lord McKenzie of Luton and...
Anna Soubry: ...right hon. Members on both sides of the House care about something and see why it should be done, political will is required to make it happen. I pay handsome tribute to the Prime Minister for not messing about. I know that she will have been supported by wise words from the Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Mr Dunne), and from the Secretary of State, who made the case to...
Darren Millar: No, I haven’t got—. I may take time in a second. And I think that stringing people along—. I appreciate you’ve inherited a real mess, frankly, as a Cabinet Secretary, from your predecessor because you’re relatively new to this particular post, but the reality is that, unfortunately, that mess has landed in your inbox and you’ve had to pick up the pieces. I think it’s only right...
Lord Roberts of Llandudno: ...one great disappointment, and I am sure the Minister involved will know exactly what I am referring to; there has been no commitment at all to receiving the 20,000 Syrian refugees as promised by David Cameron. It is not there in the Queen’s Speech. Nor is there a commitment to increase the number of unaccompanied child refugees. When you think that in Europe there are still about 88,000...
Carwyn Jones: ...offer, which has been raised, well, as I said earlier on, the pilots are beginning in September. That will roll out then. It is right that this is done properly. ‘Get it right and don’t mess it up’ is the phrase that I always use, and so these things take a little time in order to get them absolutely right. On the local government Bill, the objective of the Bill, quite simply, is to...
Lord Bilimoria: My Lords, looking back to 22 February 2016—the day that David Cameron announced the referendum—Britain was flying. We were the fastest-growing economy in the western world. We were the envy of Europe. Four months later, on 23 June, we had the 52:48 referendum result. Our world has changed since then. Look at the turmoil we are in a year later. Far from flying and being the envy of...
Tim Farron: ...I have got the honesty to admit it publicly. Britain, for all its immense and glorious heritage, its potentially wonderful future, and all its tremendous values, is nevertheless a country in a mess. It is essentially a mess caused by two choices made by two Conservative Prime Ministers who put their party before their country. First, David Cameron called a referendum on Europe for no...
Linda Fabiani: ...rooms in Edinburgh. The trust was instrumental in ensuring that New Lanark was preserved for posterity and for all of us to enjoy. When people talk about New Lanark, they talk about the legacy of David Dale and Robert Owen and about the wonderful social initiatives that were taken at that time and were exported around the world. We should be very proud of it, but we must ask ourselves...