Member

The Labour Party has won. No hereditary Peer will ever again take their oath at this Dispatch Box. However, I submit that it is not necessary, on top of that, to wield the brutal axe on our colleagues who sit here now. That is what the amendment passed by your Lordships’ House for grandfather rights asks the Government to moderate. There is a chance—and a choice—to temper historic victory with a magnanimity in that victory. Such a statesmanlike choice would benefit this House in keeping the Members whom we value and, at the same time, unleash a spirit of good will that could carry us all together through the rest of this Parliament.