An influx of new life peers should better reflect the last general election result, but, as Sean O’Grady explains, there are other factors behind this eyebrow-raising list of new lords
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An influx of new life peers should better reflect the last general election result, but, as Sean O’Grady explains, there are other factors behind this eyebrow-raising list of new lords
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here must be some irony, if not perhaps a hint of spite, in the fact that the House of Lords is causing the government some legislative difficulty just as the very last of the hereditary peers are shuffling out of the chamber.
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