Lord Lilley

My Lords, it is a great privilege to open this debate, especially with the high calibre of people proposing to participate in it. The basic science of global warming is rock solid, but we have been to

My Lords, does the noble Baroness speak to the NFU, which does not want to rejoin Europe because it believes that the divergences from EU rules since Brexit have benefited it enormously? Doing away wi

My Lords, it is always a great and nostalgic pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, whose enthusiasm for rejoining the European Union reminds me of the remarks of Samuel Johnson about a frien

They were, of course, signed by the past Government, but they were described by the EU as temporary. That was the sole justification the EU gave for including trade with Northern Ireland in the withdr

My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Lords, Lord Murphy and Lord Carlile. I do so with some temerity; I cannot understand why I have been put so high up the list, since my expertise i

My Lords, I congratulate the committee and its chairman on the report. I hesitate to participate in this debate since I have limited expertise in foreign affairs, and still less on the scrutiny of for