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Instead, we have this vendetta against 99 hereditaries in the belief that the Government will win more votes here if they do this. I did the figures—again for the committee of the noble Lord, Lord Burns—and, if any Labour or Conservative Government in this House wanted a guarantee that they would win votes for the majority, they would have to reduce the combined numbers of Cross-Benchers, Lib Dems, Conservative, Labour and non-affiliated Peers to no more than 250 in total. Alternatively, it would have to add about 300 Labour or Conservative Peers.