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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 2 July 2025
Debate
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillContribution
The plan for an alternative, democratically based second Chamber was very enthusiastically received by Sir Keir Starmer when it was proposed by Gordon Brown, and it apparently remains the Government’s aspiration. The lodestar that is the Labour manifesto committed them to replacing this House with
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