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So there is no consensus on any of those issues. However —and this is the point that I really want to make—there is consensus on one issue, namely that the House of Lords is too large. It has, I believe, 805 Members, which makes it the second largest Chamber in the world, after the supreme parliament of the People’s Republic of China. In view of that consensus, we should perhaps reduce its size, and there is surely a simple way of doing that.