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House of Lords Reform

Proceeding contribution from Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 6 March 2007. It occurred during Debate on House of Lords Reform.
I have no doubt that the hon. Lady is right about her statistics, but she ignores the central point, which is that it is only in the past 10 years that the House of Lords has been reformed so that there is no party majority. In the old days, there was a big Tory majority, so Labour Governments had a harder time, but that is not the position now, and everybody agrees, as far as is possible, that there will never again be a single-party majority in the Lords.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
457 c1469 
Session
2006-07
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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