Speeches

Alistair Lexden speaks in the Lords from time to time about issues relating to animal welfare. On 6 and 12 May he supported amendments, moved by Lord Black of...

Between 1967 and 2000—a period when homosexual conduct was no longer a crime in civilian life—some 20,000 LGBT people were thrown out of the armed forces...

After inflicting two heavy defeats on the Government, on 1 April the House of Lords reluctantly gave way to the large Labour majority in the Commons, and ended...

In the Lords on 13 March, Alistair Lexden once more condemned Labour’s imposition of VAT on independent school fees.He spoke as President of the Independent...

On 27 February, during the Lords Committee stage of a Bill which increases the tax burden on many independent schools by making those with charitable status...

On 29 January, the Lords debated a Government Bill which will remove the rates relief that independent schools with charitable status have always enjoyed...

Operation Midland was one of the most disastrous investigations in the history of the Metropolitan Police. Between 2014 and 2016, police officers mercilessly...

Everyone involved in education knows that state schools are struggling to make adequate provision for children with special needs. Many of them lack the...

Alistair Lexden delivered the following speech in the House of Lords during a debate on the Labour Government’s irresponsible tax-raising first budget on 11...