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Lord Pannick (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 July 2025

Debate

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

Contribution

My Lords, I have added my name to this amendment. I suggest, in addition to the point made by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, that the position is even worse. We are not relying on the Clerk of the Parliaments; the Government are relying on legal advice which has been received that none of us have seen. I cannot understand, on a matter of this importance which goes to the integrity of the House, why we are denied access to legal advice which, as I understand it, the Government are relying on in order to respond to the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Ashton. This is a matter on which certainty is essential and I, for my part, without seeing this legal advice, cannot accept that the best solution is not to put the matter, with clarity, in legislation.

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