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HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, can I just reply to the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, on what I thought was a disobliging and wholly unnecessary speech? He said that this is a five-clause Bill and does not…12 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I have signed the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Newby, but I really enjoyed listening to my noble friend Lord Blencathra, who raised many sensible…10 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords—10 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI thank the noble Baroness for putting me right.10 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords—10 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillAnyway, that took us to 1998-99 and the promise in the 1997 Blairite manifesto that there would be a democratic reform. Here we are, 28 years after that, and there is no further…10 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I intervene simply to say that I have long been a supporter of an elected House, as many noble Lords are aware—certainly since 1997. I am on the public record. I…10 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI am sorry to intervene on the noble Lord, but he is making much store about the manifesto, which also says that Peers who are over the age of 80 by the end of this Parliament…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I am reminded of the debates that took place many years ago on the future of the Lord Chancellor, when he was removed from your Lordships’ House. It was the law of…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I hope the noble Baroness does not feel that I have spoken at length. I have not. I have spoken many times to make short points; perhaps I can take up another now that I…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Finn, who spoke with great authority and skill. The more she spoke, the more convinced I was that I was right to move the amendment in the…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I fancy that, if this Bill dealt with the expulsion of all Peers over 80, the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, would be a leading light in opposition to that legislation. I am…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, Amendment 4 is a short amendment with a very small impact on two Members of this House. It is less a probing amendment and more one that I very much hope the Front Bench…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, let me carry on on the groupings that we have and on the speech in introducing his amendment of my noble friend—03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I have listened to parts of this debate, and I understand what the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, was saying: this takes this debate down a different course. We…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillFeel free.03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I think it is a little bit much for the noble Baroness to give my noble friend Lord Moynihan a hard time for making what she said was a Second Reading speech. The fact…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I much enjoyed the speech of my noble friend Lord Forsyth, particularly when my name was mentioned and the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, started murmuring on his Back…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillOn the question of groupings, I understand that the Opposition put forward some suggestions for groupings to the Government Whips’ Office at the end of last week, and they were…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill03 Mar 2025