Review of Important Lords' Powers 14th January 2016 The House of Lords examines very large numbers of statutory instruments (known collectively as secondary legislation) which follow the passage of Acts of... Speeches
Commonwealth countries and homosexuality - Renewed call for decriminalisation 17th December 2015 In most countries of the Commonwealth homosexuality is a criminal offence. Alistair Lexden has campaigned for an end to this appalling abuse of human rights... Speeches
The Government and History 11th December 2015 Since 1908 governments of all political persuasions have commissioned official histories of individual ministries and departments, the conduct of wars and other... Speeches
The Lexden Bill gets its second reading 23rd November 2015 The Private Member’s Bill which Alistair Lexden introduced in the Lords in early June was given its Second Reading on November 20. Recent NewsSpeeches
British Citizens Abroad - Justice Denied 19th November 2015 The Lords held their last full debates on the EU Referendum Bill on November 18. The House returned to the issue of whether all British citizens living in other... Speeches
Rights denied in Northern Ireland 18th November 2015 "Why should my gay friends in Belfast be denied the right to marry each other if they wish to do so while my gay friends in London can exercise that right?”... Speeches
Who should vote in the EU referendum? 3rd November 2015 There is wide support among Opposition Parties in the Lords (though not among Conservatives) for adding 16 year-olds to the electoral register for the... Speeches
Our new Electoral Registration System 27th October 2015 On October 27 the Lords debated important subordinate legislation (a statutory instrument under the Electoral Registration and Admission Act 2013) to complete... Speeches
'A Gleam of Splendour' - the Battle of Agincourt 23rd October 2015 On 23 October Alistair Lexden delivered an address at a lunch held in the Carlton Club, of which he is the historian, to mark the 600 th anniversary of the... Speeches
