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Budget Statement – <i>Motion to Take Note</i> | Lords debates

My Lords, I offer anonymous welcome and congratulations to all noble Lords making maiden speeches in this rather harum-scarum debate. I have three questions. Why did the Chancellor say nothing…

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Budget Statement – <i>Motion to Take Note</i> | Lords debates

My Lords, I offer anonymous welcome and congratulations to all noble Lords making maiden speeches in this rather harum-scarum debate. I have three questions. Why did the Chancellor say nothing…

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Global Navigation Satellite System – <i>Question</i> | Lords debates

My Lords, the Government paid £400 million for a minority interest in a failing company whose satellites, as we have heard, are for communication, not navigation. What kind of investment was…

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Amendment 14 | Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill – <i>Committee (1st Day)</i> | Lords debates

My Lords, I support this amendment, to which I have added my name. It is always a pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craighead, not least as, like him, I had the…

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Tigray Conflict: Axum – <i>Question</i> | Lords debates

My Lords, does the Minister share my feeling that these dreadful events at Axum are reminiscent of medieval barbarism, involving as they do the deliberate destruction of crops and the pillaging…

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