My Lords, I have noticed that the most ardent defenders of the status quo are certain noble Lords whose hereditary peerages are of the least antiquity. Is that because they hope that the effluxion of time will clothe them as legislators in some flimsy legitimacy?
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Howarth of Newport
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Friday, 8 September 2017.
It occurred during Debate on bills on House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL].
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