Peers assess EU referendum outcome

Conservative Lord Flight argues leaving the EU presents "huge trading opportunities with India and China" and the chancellor's announcement that he will cut corporation tax is "very attractive".

He says the government needs to focus on conveying the message that it "cares deeply" about attracting investment and new business. 

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Crossbencher and historian Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield says Brexit an event of "magnitude previously unseen in peacetime - sudden and breathtaking".  

He argues that the UK "prides itself on its back-of-the-envelope approach - but this was excessive".

He goes on to say: "Never have I experienced so many people with so few ideas of what to do in a crisis, ever." 

And with that business in the House of Commons comes to a close.

MPs will be back tomorrow at 11.30am ahead of the weekly duel between David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn at Prime Minister’s questions.

Responding to comments about community counter extremism practices potentially further alienating minority groups, Home Office Minister Karen Bradley says legislation only applies "promotion of opinions that can lead to violence".

Those publicly promoting practices such as female genital mutilation would be prosecuted and not those adhering to non-violent practices, she promises.

Responding to the debate, Home Office Minister Karen Bradley says the government is "ultimately committed to tackling hate crime" and is increasing funding to security and community services.

"Hate crime of any kind has absolutely no place in our society", she adds.

There has been "no police intelligence that there will be any significant public order risks following referendum", she says. 

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Crossbencher Lord Craig of Radley, a former chief of the defence staff, says that in ministers' replies to questions on EU nationals' legal status, "real life immediate concerns were shuffled under the carpet". 

He urges: "Let us say without equivocation they would not be asked to leave and this should be a red line in negotiations."

The issue "should not be left to fester on the pile", he adds. 

Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi says she grew up the child of Pakistaini parents and "frequently received abuse" which "haunted her generation" and "stung because it implied I didn't truly belong in this country". 

Ms Quereshi said she was "horrified to see the language return" during the EU referendum campaign and called the UKIP 'breaking point' poster the "visual equivalent of the Rivers of Blood speech".

The UK must get together and we say "not in our name, this is not what we are as a country".

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The full picture regarding hate crime after a Brexit vote could take months to emerge. And the national trend in recent years has been quite complicated.

Police-recorded hate crimes have been rising - but that could be more victims coming forward because they have confidence police will take them seriously.

The Crime Survey for England and Wales, an internationally-recognised rolling study of the bigger picture, suggests racism is slowly being pushed to the margins.

But there's no doubt that genuine moments of extreme national or global tension - such as major terrorist incidents or the conflict in the Middle East - are followed by spikes.

Extremists appear to take the opportunity to act because they think they can get away with it.

So the question is this: are the latest statistics a blip or a sign of a more worrying long-term trend?

Since the vote to leave the European Union, there have been reports of racism on social media, and a number of groups have reported a rise in incidents of racism and hate crime.

True Vision, a police-funded online reporting facility for hate crime, said it had received 85 reports between Thursday 23 and Sunday 26 June compared with 54 reports during the same period last month.

In London, the Metropolitan Police are investigating graffiti at a Polish community building in Hammersmith which they are treating as a hate crime "because of the racially-aggravated nature of the criminal damage".

Hate crimes reported to Leicestershire Police have almost doubled since the EU referendum, according to the force's chief constable.  

Last month David Cameron condemned reported in the wake of the UK's referendum vote to leave the EU.

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Former adviser to Margaret Thatcher and Conservative peer Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach says there's "every reason to think we can negotiate a reasonable outcome and new trade deals".

On immigration, he adds it's "essential we're able to control our total numbers - what scares people not immigration per se but having no limits". 

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Lib Dem Baroness Randerson discusses the vote by the majority of Welsh people to leave the EU "despite being a net beneficiary of EU funding". 

She predicts that many areas of Wales will be "at the sharp end if industrial and business investment is withdrawn". 

She further claims "successive administrations have been unwilling to endorse" EU funding for Wales and the government needs to "beware of creating another Scotland".

The House of Commons is now onto the adjournment debate, led by Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi.

It is on a topical subject - the EU referendum and race hate crime.

MPs divide to vote on plans to remove the requirement to hold a referendum before devolving some of the income tax levied in Wales to the Welsh government.

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MPs have rejected Labour's proposal to introduce a new system for devolving tax varying powers to Wales by votes to 285 votes to 181.

MPs divide on a Labour proposal to do away with needing a referendum to approve tax varying powers and replace it with a "fiscal framework" that must be approved by the Welsh Assembly and each House of Parliament.

Under this bill control of some of the income tax levied in Wales can be devolved to the Welsh government without a referendum.  

Shadow Welsh secretary Paul Flynn had said the "propaganda on referendums" recently have "degraded and distorted" the results, making them inappropriate to decide tax rate changes.

Any new "fiscal framework" would consider "each of the factors that will affect the level of spend on devolved public services in Wales" and include a "long term commitment to a funding floor" for Wales.

Results are expected shortly.

MPs have supported the government's plans to require those bringing forward new bills to make a written statement setting out its potential impact on the justice system in England and Wales, by 294 votes to 228.

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Labour's Lord Cashman, a former MEP, begins his speech with a quote from King Lear: 

Quote Message: The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say."

The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say."

He says he sees the "sadness on the front bench at a result the government did not want". 

He tells the House he didn't "recognise the EU institutions as described here" during the campaign and after the result he felt "I didn't belong in my own country - but it's made me more determined than ever to uphold British and European values".

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MPs have divided to vote on plans to require those bringing forward new bills to make a written statement setting out its potential impact on the justice system in England and Wales.

Critics have suggested that these new Justice Impact Assessments may – when used in concert with existing powers available to the secretary of state – be used to veto future made-in-Wales legislation.

Results are expected shortly.