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Speaking in the House of Lords on 2 December 2025
Debate
Draft Statutory Guidance on the Meaning of “Significant Influence or Control”Contribution
but those are not mentioned, so there is no definition. If you do not have clarity but have opaqueness, you are basically providing a field day for lawyers. The noble Lord, Lord Pannick, will be in a lawyers’ paradise on reading this guidance. In fact, I suggest that the Government rather rapidly sign him up before the Premier League or the EFL does.
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