Lord Newby
The Rt Hon. the Lord Newby OBE
Liberal Democrat
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 24 September 1997
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Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025
21/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I never in my wildest dreams thought my last speech as leader of the Liberal Democrats in your Lordships’ House would be to express my conce...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
20/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, the Bill, which has occupied 51 hours of your Lordships’ time, is exceptionally short. It has occupied that much time because it has
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08/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, when Sarah Clarke first came to be interviewed to be David Leakey’s successor, the majority view of the panel—of which I was one—was one of ...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
08/07/2025 • Lords
The noble Lord seems to forget that I moved an amendment for an elected House of Lords and, unless my recollection is faulty, he chose not to support ...
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, described the preamble as “fine words”. He will know the saying, “Fine words butter no parsnips”. Well, th...
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
08/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I declare an interest in that I have been a Member of your Lordships’ House for 28 years. I am extremely grateful to my
View full contribution →My Lords, I strongly support the principle behind this amendment. We have debated the concept at some length and, in my view, it is essential that we ...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
01/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am extremely grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. It is normally the case that at this point, one says that it has ...
Across Yorkshire, and to say to people, “I am standing for election here to fight for the things that I believe in on the economy, the health service ...
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
01/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I thought that the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, had summed up the situation at the end of Committee very well when he said that there was a ...
G7 and NATO Summits
30/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, the Statement improbably begins by discussing the Government’s woes on social security, which of course have absolutely nothing to do with i...
Palace of Westminster: Restoration and Renewal
24/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, can the noble Lord confirm that the cost of delay in taking a decision on getting started is running at £700 million a year, and that we rea...
UK-EU Summit
20/05/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for repeating yesterday’s Statement. I begin by associating these Benches with the sentiments expressed in the St...
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