House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill — New Clause 20 — Purpose of this Act — 12 Nov 2024 at 18:58

“The next Labour government will…bring about an immediate modernisation, by introducing legislation to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords.”

“I repeat, as I began, that our first duty, in view of the electoral and Parliamentary history of this measure, is to place this Bill on the Statute Book. It is stamped, if ever a measure was stamped, with the authority and approval of the electorate of the United Kingdom.”-[Official Report, 15 May 1911; Vol. 25, c. 1699.]

“barely been put in the oven…let alone…baked.”

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