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Lord Tugendhat (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 10 March 2025

Debate

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

Contribution

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Brady spoke very eloquently, but he did not refer to his Amendment 90C: “A person can only be a member of the House of Lords if they are not a Minister of the Crown”. I do not know why he did not refer to that, but it is a very bad idea. One of the most striking features of politics in the more than 50 years since I was elected to the House of Commons is that as the diversity in gender and ethnicity has widened—which is a good thing—the diversity of life experience has narrowed considerably. When I was first elected to the House of Commons, there were people who had a lot of business experience, people who had been active in trade unions—

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