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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 3 March 2025
Debate
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillContribution
I do not regard that as a particularly tasteful way of describing it, but he was illustrating how he planned to wreck the whole of the Labour Government’s legislative programme—his words, not mine—a Government who had the same huge majority as we have now, which was of no consequence to him. There are many lawyers here. Is an agreement on the basis of which huge threats were being made to one party to it an honourable one? Would that be an agreement in law? I do not know the answer to those questions, but I can pretty well guess them, because it is true—
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