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Lord Dobbs

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Lords, Life peer (2010 - present)

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National Security Situation

Lords Chamber on 19 April 201819/04/2018

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to talk between the noble Lord, Lord Hylton, and the noble Lord, Lord West. One is a great humanitarian and the other is—what can I say?—a great human, in all respects. I will try to be brief. I want to talk about some...

Police: Independent Inquiries

Lords Chamber on 19 April 201819/04/2018

My Lords, I am a Salisbury boy and proud to be the descendant of four generations of policemen. May I let my noble friend into a little secret? I did not have much time for Ted, either personally or politically, but this is not natural justice. Will she...

Syria

Lords Chamber on 16 April 201816/04/2018

My Lords, there is a great deal to be welcomed in the Prime Minister’s Statement, but does my noble friend recall that the last time we debated the bombing of Syria more than 70 Members spoke and only three clearly supported bombing Syria on that occasio...

European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Lords Chamber on 28 March 201828/03/2018

I found one of these nut bars the other day. It has lots of impenetrable small talk and carried a health warning. I think it was suitably named.

European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Lords Chamber on 19 March 201819/03/2018

I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend again. She will know that I feel very passionately about young voters and the younger generation. The implication of what she is saying, and it has been said many times before, is that old people—us—voted selfishly...

European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Lords Chamber on 19 March 201819/03/2018

I am grateful to my noble friend for giving way. Is it just possible that many of those people who voted for Brexit do not wish to become little Englanders, and that many of those younger people actually see a global world as their market, not the old, t...

European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Lords Chamber on 19 March 201819/03/2018

I am sorry to interrupt my noble colleague, who is very dear to me, but this idea that the young have only one view and that they will always retain this same view throughout their lives is wibble and wobble. It is simply not true. The young had the poor...

NHS: Charitable Donations

Lords Chamber on 22 February 201822/02/2018

My Lords, I have a great deal of sympathy with what the noble Lord, Lord Brooke, said, because he talked about the National Health Service being a right but also said that we have individual responsibilities. Is it not time to put much greater scrutiny on...

Palace of Westminster: Restoration and Renewal

Lords Chamber on 6 February 201806/02/2018

My Lords, what a pleasure it is to follow the noble Lord, Lord Addington. As he said, everything has been said and I occasionally feel that, as I am almost tail-end Charlie on this, once everything sensible has been said and there is nothing more sensible...

European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Lords Chamber on 30 January 201830/01/2018

My Lords, I am not quite sure what I have done to deserve the honour of being squeezed between the noble Lords, Lord Pearson and Lord Mandelson. I will separate them temporally; I do not suppose that I will need to separate them ideologically. They will...

House of Lords: Lord Speaker’s Committee Report

Lords Chamber on 19 December 201719/12/2017

My Lords, it has been said by everyone but not yet by me: I echo the words of gratitude to the noble Lord, Lord Burns, and his committee. The report has the huge benefit of being not only elegantly written but also mercifully brief. I hope to match the b...

Budget Statement

Lords Chamber on 4 December 201704/12/2017

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Palumbo of Southwark. I follow him for the very first time. I hope he will forgive me if I do not always follow his argument, however. This has been a good Budget—no pasty tax or caravan...

Young People: Digital Resilience

Lords Chamber on 7 November 201707/11/2017

My Lords, will my noble friend accept that the problem goes way beyond direct abuse and bullying? Many children feel intimidated and coerced into using social media in the first place. They seem to have many more friends but many fewer relationships. Wil...

Electric Car Ownership

Lords Chamber on 12 July 201712/07/2017

My Lords, I am truly enthused by my noble friend’s enthusiasm for electric cars. Being an old romantic, when I look 10 or 15 years ahead, I see electric and autonomous vehicles changing the way that we live, transporting people safely and cheaply, taking...

NHS: Working Conditions

Lords Chamber on 5 July 201705/07/2017

My Lords, are we not in danger of missing an important point in this discussion? Simon Stevens, the head of the NHS in England, recently talked about the abuse of the system by those who selfishly and drunkenly turn up at A&E on a Friday evening expe...

Queen’s Speech

Lords Chamber on 28 June 201728/06/2017

My Lords, every time I hear the term “soft Brexit” I think of blancmange. Blancmange Brexit. You know, you hit it with a spoon, you watch it wobble, it changes its shape. In fact, it can be any shape you want, really. To some, it means staying in the sin...

Television Broadcasts: Audibility

Lords Chamber on 4 April 201704/04/2017

My Lords, perhaps I may take this opportunity to agree with my noble friend Lord Fellowes that when dialogue is written it is always clear. A great part of the problem may be that modern televisions are all screen and the speakers face backwards. It is bo...

Class 4 National Insurance Contributions

Lords Chamber on 15 March 201715/03/2017

I bow to the noble Lord’s greater intimacy with those decisions. I pick up on the many points made about the value of manifesto commitments. It seems to me inevitable that other manifesto commitments will have to be considered: the triple lock is just...

Class 4 National Insurance Contributions

Lords Chamber on 15 March 201715/03/2017

My Lords, I congratulate the Chancellor on his brave and sensitive decision to change his mind. I see our Labour colleagues smiling, but the Chancellor changed his mind after seven days. They have not changed their minds after 18 months of having the wron...

European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill

Lords Chamber on 21 February 201721/02/2017

My Lords, it is a great pleasure—humbling, in fact—to follow that fine speech by the noble Lord, Lord O’Neill of Clackmannan, and indeed so many others during these two days. It has been a great debate for the reputation of this House, and we need it. ...

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