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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 11 March 2025

Debate

Football Governance Bill [HL]

Contribution

We know—unless it has withdrawn its letter expressing numerous significant concerns about the Bill—that UEFA is unwilling to provide such categorical assurances. It certainly would not provide them to me when I wrote. This is understandable. A statutory regulator represents an unprecedented step for football and UEFA naturally wishes to preserve its options as implementation unfolds. More plainly stated, it wants to maintain maximum leverage.

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