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Member
Speaking in the House of Commons on 12 November 2024
Debate
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillContribution
The Labour Government are now, of course, asserting that the continued presence of excepted hereditary peers is an accident. That is not true. At the time, Lord Irvine of Lairg explained that the hereditary peers remained as a guarantee from the Labour Government that the second stage, or proper reform of the House of Lords, would take place. As he put it in 1999,
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