Lord Wolfson of Tredegar — Hansard

Lords Debate 4 July 2025 2 contributions

Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL]

My Lords, I too begin by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Woodley, for his determination on and commitment to this matter, both today and on several previous occasions. The injustice of the IPP sentence, and its effects, which continue, are not in dispute. As my noble friend Lord Balfe said, it is a m…

My Lords, given the way the debate on these amendments has gone—and with no disrespect to the noble Lord, Lord Woodley—I propose to say only a few words about Amendment 7, which is, as I understand it, the only live amendment, so to speak. It is in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley…

Lords Debate 2 July 2025 3 contributions

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

My Lords, I will be brief, because this is the fifth time I have spoken on this topic. The first time I spoke, when I advanced the proposition that the Lord Chancellor should come back to this House, Lord Judge—whom I think we all miss very much—inquired in that very gentle way of his whether I was …

The point I was trying to make is that I think—the noble and learned Lord the Attorney-General may correct me—that he took an oath because he wanted to. I think the only one that is based in statute is the Lord Chancellor’s. That is the point I was making.

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Lords Debate 2 July 2025

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

My Lords, I will make two very short points. First, the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, knows the respect in which I hold him, but it is a subtle piece of advocacy to say that the hereditaries sit here purely because of the family they were born into, to use the noble Lord’s phrase. Since 2005, that has n…

Lords Proceedings 30 June 2025 7 contributions

UK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago

I am listening attentively to what the noble Lord is saying. If he has time, could he outline a little more of the background to the decision James Cleverly made in November 2022 to open negotiations on the exercise of sovereignty?

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Lords Oral Questions 30 June 2025

Arts Sector

My right honourable friend the Culture Secretary will be providing a full Statement in the other place on this matter today. The BBC has issued a statement acknowledging that it should have pulled the stream during the performance and regrets that this did not happen. I share the noble Lord’s sentim…

Lords Debate 11 June 2025

Holocaust Memorial Bill

My Lords, I will be brief, because this is in fact Report, although sometimes it has not quite seemed that way. The point in this amendment appears to me to be short, focused and unanswerable. What is the question that we are trying to answer? Why are we building this memorial and learning centre? …

Lords Debate 10 June 2025

Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill

My Lords, I first associate myself with the words of those who spoke in tribute to Lord Justice William Davis. News of his death on Saturday morning reached his fellow judges, and former judges, like a thunderclap. He really was tremendously admired and liked. He would take on any additional role th…

Lords Oral Questions 7 May 2025

Antisemitism on University Campuses

My Lords, may I apologise for not having mentioned my interest as a member of the UJS advisory council? I am sorry; I should have done so.

Lords Debate 7 May 2025

Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill

I start my closing speech by paying tribute to the noble and learned Lord Etherton. Being relatively new to this place, I never got to know him, but it is clear how much he was deeply respected and admired. He has been described as a kind person, which is something that I hope one day would be my ep…