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Queen's speech debate on Monday, 7 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Jack Straw. The answering member was Nick Clegg.

Constitution and Home Affairs

Queen's speech debate (fifth day) on the Constitution and Home Affairs. Closure division negatived (347 to 251)

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Parliamentary proceeding
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511 c25-135 
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2010-12
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Home Office
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Proceeding contributions
Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 511 c58-60 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make my maiden speech today. It is a delight to fol...
Bob Blackman | 511 c63-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker for inviting me to make my maiden speech. I congratulate the hon. Membe...
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Margot James | 511 c60-1 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make my maiden speech to the House, and I am deligh...
Guy Opperman | 511 c97-9 (Link to this contribution) Mr Deputy Speaker, I am grateful for the opportunity to thank the people of the Hexham constituency ...
Bridget Phillipson | 511 c73-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech, and I congratulate Members from all part...
Ian Swales | 511 c71-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my first speech to the House. I congratulate al...
Michael Ellis | 511 c82-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I am delighted to have caught your eye to give my maide...
Fiona O'Donnell | 511 c80-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my maiden speech in this important debate. I t...
Mark Reckless | 511 c105-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for West Dunbartonshire (Gemma Doyle) and Members on both sides of th...
Stephen Lloyd | 511 c108-10 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech this evening. It has been a privilege to ...
Eilidh Whiteford | 511 c110-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity this evening to address the House for the first time, and it is a ...
Lord Hart of Tenby | 511 c119-21 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you for calling me, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but not half as grateful as my family and f...
Dominic Raab | 511 c66-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me at this point in the debate. I beg the patience of the ...
Tristram Hunt | 511 c64-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a great privilege to called in this important debate to make my maiden speech and to be the fi...
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford | 511 c78-80 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to give my maiden speech today, although not quite so grateful to ...
Baroness Curran | 511 c87-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for the opportunity to deliver my maiden speech in this august Chamber, Mr Deputy Speaker....
Robert Buckland | 511 c85-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my maiden speech. It is a maide...
Michael McCann | 511 c95-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills) on an excellent maiden speech. It is w...
Nigel Mills | 511 c93-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to speak in today's debate, and I congratulate the other Members ...
Matt Hancock | 511 c113-4 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to be called to speak and to follow the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Dr Whitefo...
Gemma Doyle | 511 c102-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to make my maiden speech today. I congratulate a...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 511 c116-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk (Matthew Hancock) in mak...
Speaker | 511 c50 (Link to this contribution) Order. An exceptionally large number of Members is trying to catch the Speaker's eye in the debate. ...
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 511 c27 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to be returned to represent the new constituency of Thirsk and Malton, and I am grate...
Jack Straw | 511 c28 (Link to this contribution) Let me consider the key elements of the new Government's proposals in turn, and then, of course, I w...
Tobias Ellwood | 511 c27 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Tobias Ellwood | 511 c28 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. To take him back to his phrase, ““ramming through change ...
Jack Straw | 511 c28 (Link to this contribution) I promised to give way to the hon. Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood).
Jack Straw | 511 c28 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Gentleman protests a little too much on that. He needs to explain, as does the Cons...
Jack Straw | 511 c29 (Link to this contribution) I will make a little more progress before giving way to the hon. Gentleman. For seven years after t...
Julian Lewis | 511 c29 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that in the course of the competitive negotiations with the Li...
Simon Hughes | 511 c30 (Link to this contribution) On the questions of Lords reform and the legislation for a referendum on voting reform, may we have ...
Jack Straw | 511 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) The answer is no. I would also say to the hon. Gentleman that a very significant proportion of Labou...
Jack Straw | 511 c30 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have to allow me to say that I consult my colleagues about the whipping arra...
Jack Straw | 511 c30 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but then I want to make some progress.
Jack Straw | 511 c32 (Link to this contribution) First, that was quite a long time after 1832. Secondly, as the hon. Gentleman might recall, the vote...
David TC Davies | 511 c31-2 (Link to this contribution) The former Minister is making an interesting speech about equality, but will he confirm that it was ...
Jack Straw | 511 c30-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr Skinner) says that there were no guillotines, as they wer...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 511 c30 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, and I am glad that the sinner is repenting. Does he...
David Evennett | 511 c33 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the right hon. Gentleman's speech with great interest, but a lot of what he is say...
Jack Straw | 511 c33 (Link to this contribution) That is the aspiration, and I do not for a second doubt the good faith of the hon. Lady. I am glad t...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 511 c33 (Link to this contribution) I certainly do still take that view 100%, but the right hon. Gentleman will recall that, when we deb...
Jack Straw | 511 c32 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to see the hon. Member for Epping Forest (Mrs Laing) in the Chamber, because she played an...
Jack Straw | 511 c25-6 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move an amendment, at the end of the Question to add:"““but, whilst welcoming the progress ...
Speaker | 511 c25 (Link to this contribution) I inform the House that I have selected the amendment in the name of Ms Harriet Harman. Once moved, ...
Jack Straw | 511 c27 (Link to this contribution) Indeed—perhaps it is the only way of keeping him. However, I invite my hon. Friend to stay and I wil...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 511 c27 (Link to this contribution) The amendment tabled by the Leader of the Opposition mentions the special majority that is required ...
Jack Straw | 511 c26 (Link to this contribution) As I said a moment ago, I believe that there is a case for bringing together our constitutional arra...
Jack Straw | 511 c27 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Lady to the Chamber—I am glad to see her return to the House, albeit, through no ...
Keith Vaz | 511 c26 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right that a great deal of constitutional change has occurred over the past ...
Mark Lazarowicz | 511 c53 (Link to this contribution) Like the right hon. Gentleman, I voted against the Digital Economy Bill on Third Reading, before Dis...
David Davis | 511 c53 (Link to this contribution) I think I have only a minute left, so I ask the hon. Gentleman please to be quick.
Mark Lazarowicz | 511 c53 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
David Davis | 511 c52-3 (Link to this contribution) With only seven minutes, I must be brief on the issues I want to raise. The Deputy Prime Minister w...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 511 c56-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak after the right hon. Member for Salford and Eccles (Hazel Blears). I am su...
Hazel Blears | 511 c54-6 (Link to this contribution) I am a little worried that the new politics might be encapsulated by the fact that I find myself in ...
Alun Michael | 511 c50-2 (Link to this contribution) Given the limited time, I will concentrate on crime reduction, the work of the police and community ...
Nick Clegg | 511 c50 (Link to this contribution) The Deputy Leader of the House tells me that there is an Adjournment debate about the matter tonight...
Chris Bryant | 511 c49 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. It has been customary in the House for the appoin...
Nick Clegg | 511 c48 (Link to this contribution) Let me just confirm that the committee will hold its first meeting as early as next week, and that i...
Pete Wishart | 511 c48-9 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. The Deputy Prime Minister has just announced a major new com...
Speaker | 511 c49 (Link to this contribution) I have to say to the hon. Gentleman that his views have been heard by the House, but that is a matte...
Nick Clegg | 511 c48 (Link to this contribution) I will not, because many other Members wish to speak in the debate and I have been very generous in ...
Nick Clegg | 511 c48 (Link to this contribution) No, I should like to make progress now. I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Blackburn for hi...
Jack Straw | 511 c48 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for what he has said, and we will work constructively...
Nick Clegg | 511 c48 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman.
Speaker | 511 c49 (Link to this contribution) It is for the Government to decide what the membership of a Government committee should be, so that ...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 511 c49 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I have listened carefully to your ruling that tha...
Nick Clegg | 511 c49 (Link to this contribution) I feel that I have answered the hon. Member for South Antrim (Dr McCrea), so I give way to my hon. F...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 511 c49-50 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful. Before my right hon. Friend concludes, may I raise a matter that has been of concern ...
Speaker | 511 c49 (Link to this contribution) I noted that the hon. Gentleman was seeking to intervene. Perhaps he will be able to catch Mr Speake...
Nick Clegg | 511 c49 (Link to this contribution) May I first remind Opposition Members that what was customary over the past 13 years was that an ann...
Nick Clegg | 511 c49 (Link to this contribution) No, I wish to conclude my remarks so that others can have their say.
Jack Straw | 511 c46 (Link to this contribution) First, on the size of the House, the right hon. Gentleman will know that the number of MPs has gone ...
Nick Clegg | 511 c46 (Link to this contribution) I give way first to the right hon. Member for Blackburn.
Nick Clegg | 511 c44 (Link to this contribution) The answer is no. The right hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr Straw) was right. That was not offered by ...
Emily Thornberry | 511 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman intend to address the issue of low voter registration? He may well kno...
Julian Lewis | 511 c44 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Deputy Prime Minister for giving way. He will have heard the answer that the right hon. ...
Nick Clegg | 511 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) I am not saying that there will be a rigid, arithmetical formula which—[Interruption.] No, there wil...
Nick Clegg | 511 c45 (Link to this contribution) We believe, as did the previous Government, that we need to introduce individual voter registration....
Jack Straw | 511 c45 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman refers to the contrast between the Western Isles, with 22,000 people, and t...
Nick Clegg | 511 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) Clearly the job of being an MP in sparsely populated and very large rural constituencies is a great ...
Nick Clegg | 511 c46 (Link to this contribution) That is a problem, and that is exactly why the acceleration of the individual voter registration sys...
Nick Clegg | 511 c46 (Link to this contribution) I will take one more intervention, and then make some progress.
Alun Michael | 511 c47 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that the basic democratic right is the right to vote and that n...
Nick Clegg | 511 c47 (Link to this contribution) Urgency? The right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues have had 13 years to do this. How often are the...
Nick Clegg | 511 c47 (Link to this contribution) I will take one more intervention, and then I am genuinely going to try to make some progress.
Nick Clegg | 511 c41 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman normally talks with some knowledge, but he appears to have forgotten that the Par...
Chris Bryant | 511 c40 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman referred earlier to hoarding power. Will he explain the length of time that...
Speaker | 511 c41 (Link to this contribution) I think that the Deputy Prime Minister knows the form of address for the House.
Lord Brennan of Canton | 511 c41 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I apologise for interrupting the Deputy Prime Minister, but ...
Nick Clegg | 511 c40 (Link to this contribution) Let me make some progress, and then I will give way to the hon. Gentleman. Let him hear me out first...
Nick Clegg | 511 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) Yes, the Government do support a yes vote in that referendum. As for the referendum's timing, as the...
Nick Clegg | 511 c41 (Link to this contribution) Yes; I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for, once again, really picking out the important things in...
Emily Thornberry | 511 c41 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Nick Clegg | 511 c41 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make a bit of progress if I may. We also plan to strengthen the Scottish Parliamen...
Ian Lucas | 511 c41 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman says that there will be a referendum in Wales on the All Wales Convention's...
David Davis | 511 c43 (Link to this contribution) The Deputy Prime Minister knows that I approve of and support the power of recall, but I have talked...
Nick Clegg | 511 c43 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make progress. I have said as much as I can and wish to say at this stage on that i...
Nick Clegg | 511 c43 (Link to this contribution) The Government are three weeks old. The right hon. Gentleman has rightly pointed out that these are ...
Jack Straw | 511 c43 (Link to this contribution) Frankly, if these proposals are formed already, the Deputy Prime Minister needs, if I may say so, be...
Nick Clegg | 511 c42-3 (Link to this contribution) I have already explained, and the hon. Gentleman must accept, that, clearly, there needs to be a dif...
Richard Burden | 511 c42 (Link to this contribution) May I take the Deputy Prime Minister back from recall of MPs to the issue of recall of Governments? ...
Tom Harris | 511 c44 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Deputy Prime Minister, who is being very generous. I do not expect that he will...
Nick Clegg | 511 c44 (Link to this contribution) The coalition agreement, which binds the Government as a whole, is very clear that we want to see fi...
Nick Clegg | 511 c43 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm that I believe it would be wrong for a Committee that, as constituted previously, is c...
Nick Clegg | 511 c44 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way one more time, then I shall make progress.
Jack Straw | 511 c36 (Link to this contribution) I can give the hon. Member for Wyre and Preston North (Mr Wallace) an answer, and it is not a bad on...
Speaker | 511 c36 (Link to this contribution) Order. We cannot have an intervention upon an intervention; a few words from Mr Straw before we hear...
Angus Robertson | 511 c37 (Link to this contribution) Please can we never again hear this comparison with the situation in the Scottish Parliament on this...
Jack Straw | 511 c37 (Link to this contribution) I should also tell hon. Members that if they were to read section 3 of the 1998 Act, they would find...
Lord Beith | 511 c37 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Jack Straw | 511 c37 (Link to this contribution) Of course I will give way to a Liberal Democrat—why not?
Lord Beith | 511 c37 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman's real view that the Prime Minister's unfettered power to call a general...
Jack Straw | 511 c37-8 (Link to this contribution) I do not understand. Either this has been done for partisan reasons—[Hon. Members: ““Answer the ques...
Nick Clegg | 511 c38-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr Straw) for opening today's debate, which he did at c...
Jack Straw | 511 c38 (Link to this contribution) We are not wrong. It is interesting that whenever Ministers have sought to explain this, they have t...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 511 c39-40 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Deputy Prime Minister could clarify the question I put to my right hon. Friend the Membe...
Nick Clegg | 511 c40 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to that in greater detail in a minute. Quite simply, the logic is to stop any single pa...
Chris Leslie | 511 c39 (Link to this contribution) Stepping off his moral high horse for just a moment, could the right hon. Gentleman take the time to...
Nick Clegg | 511 c39 (Link to this contribution) I do not think anyone in the House, and particularly outside it, would question the value of trying ...
Chris Bryant | 511 c40 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Jack Straw | 511 c33 (Link to this contribution) Nobody argues that it is not important to secure electoral equality in England, Scotland and Wales—w...
Dennis Skinner | 511 c34 (Link to this contribution) On the question of city seats, is my right hon. Friend aware that the first casualty could be the De...
Angus Robertson | 511 c36 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr Straw) allow me to deal with that point?
Ben Wallace | 511 c36 (Link to this contribution) Before entering this House, I was a Member of the Scottish Parliament. Can the right hon. Gentleman ...
Jack Straw | 511 c35-6 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a very important point, but the truth is that under the amendment to whic...
Anne McGuire | 511 c34-5 (Link to this contribution) Sometimes when we talk about geography, we do not appreciate the full extent of the situation. My co...
Jack Straw | 511 c34 (Link to this contribution) There is no doubt that the biggest net losers under the current proposals in the so-called coalition...
Lord Spellar | 511 c130 (Link to this contribution) claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36). Question put forthwith, That the Question be n...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 511 c129-30 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make a little progress, if I may. [Interruption.] I am going to make a little progress...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 511 c58 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I will accept that. AV would not create fairness; it would be even less proportional than first...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 511 c57-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his point, and it gives me great pleasure to be able to say for...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 511 c62-3 (Link to this contribution) May I say how much I enjoyed the maiden speech of the hon. Member for Stourbridge (Margot James)? Sh...
Jack Straw | 511 c57 (Link to this contribution) I rise just to put on record that, yes, it was I who legislated for early counts wherever possible, ...
Speaker | 511 c75 (Link to this contribution) Order. I do not intend to alter the time limit, as that would be unfair, particularly to those who a...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 511 c76-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Members who have made their maiden speeches. They have been very interesting...
Lord Tyrie | 511 c75-6 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by saying that that was an outstanding maiden speech by the hon. Member for Houghton an...
Mark Lazarowicz | 511 c69 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend think it possible that those appointed to the House of Lords by the Govern...
Caroline Flint | 511 c69 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. In previous votes, I voted to abolish the second Chamber. I do not think that is...
Caroline Flint | 511 c69-71 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, and I have heard rumours of grandfather clauses, which is rather fright...
Caroline Flint | 511 c68-9 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Esher and Walton (Mr Raab) on his maiden speech. It is always dau...
Lord Tyrie | 511 c69 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the right hon. Lady. She may be interested to know—I have checked—that the oth...
Viscount Thurso | 511 c89-90 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Glasgow East (Margaret Curran) on a tremendous maiden speech. Tho...
Angus Robertson | 511 c84-5 (Link to this contribution) I start by commending the hon. Member for Northampton North (Michael Ellis) on his excellent and ill...
Lord McCabe | 511 c99-100 (Link to this contribution) It is probably just as well that this is not a maiden speech, because I would hate to have to compet...
Mark Field | 511 c100-2 (Link to this contribution) Parliament has returned to a sea of fresh faces, but unlike you, Mr Deputy Speaker, I recognise hard...
Viscount Thurso | 511 c90-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point, but I must not become involved in a discu...
Mark Lazarowicz | 511 c90 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to emphasise the importance of maintaining the constituency link, but wo...
Gordon Marsden | 511 c91-3 (Link to this contribution) Thus far, today's debate has been elegantly poised between rhetoric and reality. The reality we all ...
Siobhain McDonagh | 511 c114-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for West Suffolk (Matthew Hancock) on his maiden speech and hope that...
Speaker | 511 c110 (Link to this contribution) Order. It is an excellent maiden speech, but I am afraid that I must now call the next speaker.
Mark Lazarowicz | 511 c106-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Rochester and Strood (Mark Reckless) on his fine maiden speech. T...
Alan Johnson | 511 c123 (Link to this contribution) Ah! I give way to the Deputy Prime Minister.
Nick Clegg | 511 c123 (Link to this contribution) Let me clarify this by saying that it was indeed a slip of the tongue. The Government avidly support...
Alan Johnson | 511 c124-6 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether that can be recorded as a slip of the tongue; I think that the right hon. Gent...
Ian Lucas | 511 c123 (Link to this contribution) Was my right hon. Friend concerned to read on the BBC News website this evening that officials in th...
Alan Johnson | 511 c121-3 (Link to this contribution) I hope the House will appreciate my being unable to respond to the contributions of all the old retr...
Alan Johnson | 511 c123 (Link to this contribution) I just do not accept what my hon. Friend has said: this is the new politics, and what is said from t...
Tom Harris | 511 c118-9 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure I am up to the task of following such an eloquent, entertaining and, frankly, self-ass...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 511 c129 (Link to this contribution) I was rather amused by the right hon. Gentleman's reference— [Hon. Members: ““Yes or no!””] I was ra...
Alan Johnson | 511 c129 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary please confirm—now she has seen the statistics, now there can be no ambiguit...
Tom Harris | 511 c129 (Link to this contribution) The first Bill Committee on which I served as a Back Bencher after being elected nine years ago was ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 511 c128-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving me an opportunity to respond to that point. As he h...
David Davis | 511 c128 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for her response to my question. I raised another issue—28-day detentio...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 511 c128 (Link to this contribution) I am not able to give the right hon. Gentleman a timetable at the moment. Indeed, I took a decision ...
Keith Vaz | 511 c128 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Home Secretary to the Dispatch Box. One of her first decisions was to announce a revie...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 511 c126-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to close this debate, which, as the shadow Home Secretary has just said, was ...
Jack Straw | 511 c27 (Link to this contribution) I do, but I invite my hon. Friend to stay in the Chamber a little longer—
David Davis | 511 c53-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman restates my wish for the Government to take that issue on board. I hope that they...
John Hemming | 511 c129 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady please give way?
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 511 c129 (Link to this contribution) The Government and the Conservative party will take no lessons from Labour about being tough on crim...
Jack Straw | 511 c27 (Link to this contribution) One suggestion—I might even have made it—was that the new system might increase turnout. Even Homer ...
Viscount Thurso | 511 c47 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to hear that my right hon. Friend is not bound by any strict and rigid arithmetical f...
Nick Clegg | 511 c40 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make progress and then I will give way again. First, we need to relinquish Executi...
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