Speeches

On 28 January, Alistair Lexden spoke to some 100 members of the Carlton Club by Zoom about the Club’s history. The text of his address follows: There would have...

After years of campaigning and cross-party pressure in Parliament, a scheme was announced in 2019 to provide compensation payments to severely disabled people...

In 2013, landmark legislation, the Defamation Act, struck a new and much fairer balance between the rights of claimants and defendants in libel cases. The Act...

On Sunday, 3 January Boris Johnson said it was perfectly safe for children to return to school after the holidays; the following day, he said that schools must...

An Act of Parliament, passed in 1937, defined the objectives of the National Trust in the following terms: the preservation of buildings of national interest...

Alistair Lexden has criticised the Government in the Lords for failing to counter the serious Nationalist threat in Scotland with a vigorous and determined...

A question was asked in the House of Lords on 19 October about the future of our country’s historic statues. The Minister, who replied for the Government...

Homosexuality is a criminal offence in some 80 per cent of Commonwealth countries. They point out that this is because of laws introduced when they were part of...

Young people are eligible to go on the electoral register at the ages of 16 and 17 so that they can exercise their right to vote immediately they become 18...