On Tuesday, I took part in the Rehab Parliamentary Pancake Race. The annual contest, now in its sixteenth year, involves teams of MPs, Peers and members of the Press Gallery racing (and flipping) their way around Victoria Tower Gardens in aid of the disability charity, Rehab. Despite allegations of some unparliamentary behaviour, the MPs’ team managed…
Further to Lord Norton’s post below the question was asked by Lord Dubs who compared our position unfavourably with that of prisoners who may soon get the vote. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldhansrd/text/90223-0001.htm#0902234000436 When Ientered the Lords in 2005 a long serving colleague came up to me and said “I hope you realise that you are now one of that small…
My colleague Lord Dubs of Battersea has campaigned for some time for a ban on cluster munitions and is delighted that the recent Dublin conference reached agreement on this. I think many of you would be very interested to hear his views on this so I am encouraging him to join this blog. Am I right?…
