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Articles tagged with: Lords Diary
Lords Diary: Lord Clement Jones
Economy
By Lord Clement-Jones
Lords Diary: Lord Clement Jones
Down the corridor in the Commons, early November was dominated by No 10’s Owen Paterson U-turn and in Glasgow by events at COP26 – but for me it was an opportunity to raise a number of issues relevant to innovation and the development of technology and the future of our creative industries. It started with the great news that Queen Mary University of London, whose council I chair, after many trials and tribulations, has agreed a property deal next to our Whitechapel campus with the Department of Health and Social Care. It paves the way for the development, with Barts Life Sciences, of a major research centre within a new UK Whitechapel Life Sciences Cluster.
Lords Diary: Viscount Ridley
Political parties
By Viscount Ridley
Lords Diary: Viscount Ridley
Last week saw only my fourth visit to the Lords from the north-east since the pandemic began.
Lords Diary: Baroness Grender
Communities
By Baroness Grender
Lords Diary: Baroness Grender
My week started with a peppercorn. No, really, stick with me on this one; a debate on a new Conservative bill to ditch ground rents.
Lord Diary: Natalie Bennett
Political parties
By Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
Lord Diary: Natalie Bennett
Baroness Bennett on a "dizzy" week of finance reform, feminist foreign policy, the smacking ban, and forest bathing