Member

That is the reality and it was the case in 1999, to which my noble friend Lord Howard alluded, when the Labour Party brought forward an expulsion Bill. The Government quite like expulsion Bills; after all, there were two more in the 2024 manifesto relating to hereditary Peers and all those of us aged over 80 by 2029. However, I am sorry to say that I am a little sceptical because some of us have been here before, in 1999, as my noble friend said. When they promised to introduce a reformed House in 1999, it was said at first that if we all agreed to the expulsion of all the hereditary Peers, a second Bill would come forward, but we heard very little more.