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Lord Carlile of Berriew (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 30 January 2026

Debate

Arrangement of Business

Contribution

My Lords, will the Chief Whip protect the House from what I see as double standards? Yesterday we received the in terrorem declaration from the noble and learned Lord the sponsor that he would do something that he has no power to do: invoke the Parliament Act. At the same time, in credit to the noble and learned Lord, he wrote a letter, running into four pages, in which, after seven weeks in Committee, he accepted a large number of the propositions made in your Lordships’ House. Surely that demonstrates that Committee in this House matters, is useful and is not evidence for the use of the Parliament Act.

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