Lord Strathclyde
The Rt Hon. the Lord Strathclyde CH
Conservative
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 18 March 1986
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
20/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, at Second Reading I called the Bill a “nasty little Bill” because it failed to seek any kind of consensus on a serious reform of the House a...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
08/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I cannot hide my disappointment that the noble Lord, Lord Newby, and the noble Baroness, Lady Smith—the Leader of the House—have not accepte...
My Lords, I think that some of my noble friends have been waiting a long time for this moment. It is late at night, so I assure noble Lords that I wil...
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
01/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, my support for this amendment is largely symbolic, but at least it is consistent with things that I have said and stood for in the past. The...
My Lords, before the noble Baroness sits down, what authority will this committee have? Would it be regarded by the Government as having authority? In...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
25/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I feel deeply flattered by the noble Baroness. I always thought she was younger than me, but there we are.
In her introductory remarks, s...
Ain’t going to happen.
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
25/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken. I can tell the noble Lord, Lord Newby, that I have not given up on the idea of an elected House, bu...
My Lords, the night is young and there is still plenty of time, so it is a real delight to move Amendment 90A in front of an audience of the Labour Pa...
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
12/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, as somebody who is about to be expelled from the House of Lords, I cannot help feeling a little bit sorry for the right reverend Prelates on...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
12/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, can I just reply to the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, on what I thought was a disobliging and wholly unnecessary speech? He said that this is a ...
We should thank my noble friend Lord Blencathra for introducing this amendment. It is a subject worth discussing. Since this Bill is designed to fling...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
10/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I intervene simply to say that I have long been a supporter of an elected House, as many noble Lords are aware—certainly since 1997. I am on...
My Lords—
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
03/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I hope the noble Baroness does not feel that I have spoken at length. I have not. I have spoken many times to make short points; perhaps I c...
My Lords, I have listened to parts of this debate, and I understand what the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, was saying: this takes this debate ...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
03/03/2025 • Lords
I am sorry to intervene on the noble Lord, but he is making much store about the manifesto, which also says that Peers who are over the age of 80 by t...
My Lords, I am reminded of the debates that took place many years ago on the future of the Lord Chancellor, when he was removed from your Lordships’ H...
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