Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab)

My Lords, I give special thanks to those who shared personal experiences with us, in particular the noble Lords, Lord Markham and Lord Dobbs, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Newcastle, the no

I am slightly surprised that the noble Baroness, Lady Berger, says that I did not indicate which of the coming amendments I would accept, because I indicated in detail which I would accept. I set out

The letter of 31 January 2026, which was sent to every Peer, said that.

This is a most interesting speech. On the basis of what the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, is saying, if the judge was still there then the Bill would be okay. Why could we not have got to Report and vot

The point that has been made repeatedly in this House is that public opinion is in favour of this Bill and the Commons has passed it. Therefore, we have a duty to get through our business. Does the no

The noble Lord says that there has been no publicly available impact assessment; that is wrong. There is a publicly available impact assessment, published not by the sponsors but by the Department of