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“Another consideration has been the practicality of an age limit of 80. Guardian calculations show 292 out of 714 life peers will be 80 by the end of the current parliament. The change would affect Labour peers vastly more than Conservatives … ‘There was some special pleading by individual lords,’ one Labour backbencher said. ‘But overall, people just looked at the peers we would lose and started to wonder if this was a good idea’”.