Speeches

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...

Years ago the Labour Party favoured pushing Northern Ireland out of the UK and into a united Ireland. Things are very different today. Labour stand by Northern...

The Government are making a bad policy even worse by rushing to impose VAT on independent school fees on I January, just two and a half months away, in the...