House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL]
Debate between Earl of Erroll and Lord Strathclyde
Report stage (Hansard): House of Lords
Friday 15th March 2019
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Friday 15th March 2019
(5 years, 8 months ago)
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Lord Strathclyde
My Lords, I shall make one very short point: what the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, has misunderstood in all of this is that although I oppose this Bill, I am prepared to accept it in exchange for an appointments commission, which I think would be extremely sensible. With that, I finish my brief intervention.
The Earl of Erroll
My Lords, briefly, I think we should look at rejigging the balance between the parties represented here, because freezing the 1999 position is silly. I suspect that when we get to Amendment 9, that is the one I shall support. They are not grouped properly, but I pre-warn noble Lords that I think they are interesting and we should look at them.