Lord McNally

My Lords, the Minister has been rolling out excuses for no action on the Parthenon sculptures that have been used by Ministers of all parties for the ...

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Do noble Lords not want to hear it? “A hormonal collapse from another femme failure who can’t cope when the going gets tough. A woman who wilts lik...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the Select Committee on Communications and Digital, under the chair, the noble Baroness, Lady Keeley. I...

My Lords, I draw the Minister’s attention, and indeed that of the noble Lord, Lord Bellingham, to the article by Hugo Rifkind in the Times ye...

My Lords, I hope we will see the noble Lord, Lord Hamilton, here for the wind-up, because there is a wicked old habit in the House of Commons of inter...

My Lords. I feel as if I am also making a maiden speech, in that it is some four months since I have been in this House while doctors have been testin...

My Lords, the Minister should be very grateful to her father: being thrown in at the deep end is very good training for ministerial life. Has she thou...

My Lords, during many years, on all sides of the House, there was a campaign for 0.7% of GNI on overseas aid, not just as a number but as a direction ...

My Lords, by this time, the Minister must be thinking that this is going to be an easy job. I am afraid he has to learn, if he has not learned already...

My Lords, one of the benefits of this House is that some of us have been around a long time. I was much involved in the decision 25 years ago. The tru...

My Lords, I give congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Goodman of Wycombe, on his maiden speech, and to what is now a very formidable Front Bench, w...