Twitter bio: Liberal Democrat Peer and Leader of Lib Dem group in House of Lords. Leeds United fan.
Affiliation: Liberal Democrat
Join Date: 25 Sep 1997
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
Watching Tories personal attacks on @MarcusRashford over wanting to help feed children reminds us all what a right… https://t.co/mODjctVt78
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
Disappointed by #Labour abstentions on immigration bill yest. The Gvt is uninterested in the welfare of EU citizens… https://t.co/BGarlvw1Nx
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
Glad to have supported Alf Dubs Immigration Bill amendment on family reunion and unaccompanied child refugees. It w… https://t.co/6svvFu77TY
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
A @LibDemLords amendment to Immigration Bill to allow UK citizens returning to UK to bring family members with them… https://t.co/Ujhj8Q74iq
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
#LibDems voting at ping-pong on #Immigration Bill to give #EU citizens physical records of their settled status in… https://t.co/iaOPL6hxQT
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
Debacle in North West has been exacerbated by high handed, patronising attitude from #borisjohnson & his ineffectua… https://t.co/v8VtK7zXtG
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
Lords votes by 282 to244 to require Gvt not to agree any trade agreement which reduces food standards. Will Tory MP… https://t.co/DCRAsdCeno
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
Lords defeat Gvt by 395 to 169 on Gvt’s plans to break law in Internal Market Bill. We will vote to take offending… https://t.co/d9hY4p5Lta
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
Today we’ll be voting in the Lords on law breaking in Internal Market Bill. Many Tories – including #Howard and… https://t.co/PFW8dDO0QU
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
Latest survey says only 26% said Govt are making the right decisions about #Covid & 61% said they don't trust… https://t.co/nESNDyZVck
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
...as we face the ravages of Covid & the impending costs & disruptions of Brexit, to have to spend, as we now are,… https://t.co/2AwdKTr9RM
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
The truth is that there isn’t a shred of justification for breaking international law as is provided for in this Bi… https://t.co/w89cteIVgu
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
Some key points from this afternoon's speech: The Government has accepted that the provisions breach international… https://t.co/BShGYyCSIS
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
See my speech on the second reading of the Internal Market Bill in full, here: https://t.co/EERy1z5n5L
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
For Downing Street to claim that John Sentamu didn’t get a Peerage because the Lords was too large is an insult and… https://t.co/1etilIyAq6
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
Pure Trump. Delusional. https://t.co/CyukxH6jvq
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
Frost doesn’t seem to understand that he is the weaker partner in these talks and that stamping his foot is unlikel… https://t.co/lbpyNVmlG0
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
UK Internal Market Bill violates rule of law and threatens constitutional settlement. Lib Dems will vote down these… https://t.co/MkrFfwjl6C
Dick Newby
@RichardNewby3
What is worse? Profiteering by Boston Consulting Group or complete lack of cost control by Government? And for a sy… https://t.co/G9pRxk8nNM