Speeches

The Government intend to slap VAT on school fees on 1 January next year. The policy is wrong; its introduction during the course of an academic year is...

As is customary, the Lords allocated several days to its debate on the Gracious Speech delivered by the King on 17 July. Alistair Lexden made his contribution...

On 23 May, Alistair Lexden had been due to open a debate in the Lords on independent schools. In that speech, he would have attacked Labour’s education tax, its...

It is now over a quarter of a century since the IRA’s evil campaign of terror ended. It left bereaved families and injured victims leading broken lives. Far too...

The number of children in the care of local authorities is rocketing - up from 64,500 in 2010 to nearly 84,000 today. But local authorities, strapped for cash...

Labour’s plan to slap VAT on independent school fees would hurt (indeed destroy) many schools and harm many pupils—in an attempt to raise money for extra public...

In March, a superb portrait of Arthur Balfour by the famous portrait painter, Philip de Laszlo, in Trinity College, Cambridge was seriously damaged by vandals...

Between 1967 and 2000 - when homosexuality was no longer a criminal offence in civilian life - some 20,000 gay people were thrown out of the Armed Forces...

On 11 March, Alistair Lexden continued his long campaign to get the Home Office to put an end to the injustice that has been done to the reputation of Ted Heath...