Reference was made in a letter in The Daily Telegraph to the action taken by Archbishop William Laud (1573-1645) to control dogs in churches. Alistair Lexden corrected an error and expanded a little on Laud’s work in a further letter published in the paper on July 26.
The speech which follows was drafted for delivery in a debate on 20 July on a recent report from the Constitution Committee of the House of Lords. In the event it went undelivered. Important business elsewhere in the House coincided with it, and took precedence.
A Liberal Chronicle in Peace and War: Journals and Papers of J.A.Pease, 1st Lord Gainford, 1911-1915
Edited by Cameron Hazlehurst and Christine Woodland
Published by Oxford University Press
For many months Alistair Lexden asked repeatedly about the long delay in starting proceedings in Cleveland at which the discredited former chief constable Mike Veale would be brought to book. An announcement that a hearing would take place was made in August 2021.
Some say a new Upper House, wholly or partially elected, is essential. Others, like Charles Moore, think no change is needed. Others still believe that the existing House could benefit from some significant change. Alistair Lexden outlined some of his views in two letters to the press.
This is a question that Alistair Lexden has asked several times in the Lords. In 2017, he introduced a Private Member’s Bill, which would have meant that inheritance tax could be postponed on the death of the first of two siblings who had shared a home for many years.
On 19 June, Alistair Lexden spoke at a large meeting organised by the Bewdley Civic Society in Worcestershire to mark the centenary of Baldwin’s first premiership, which began in May 1923. He discussed Baldwin’s early life and the events of 1923 in the first part of his address, which follows.
