Procedure and Privileges Committee

Debate between Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe and Baroness Butler-Sloss

Tuesday 22nd February 2022 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB)]

My Lords, I would just like to say that my noble friend Lady Hayman is speaking such excellent sense that the House should uniformly agree with her.

[Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Lab)]

My noble friend Lord Foulkes asked us to give our views, particularly on the role of the Speaker. I take a different view from what has been expressed by my colleagues. It is interesting to note that only two contributors to this debate have not been ex-MPs. I have been in the House for 25 years this year, and I have seen the House change from when Labour came in in 1997 and we had hundreds and hundreds of hereditaries; it was a different Chamber entirely. I then saw the change after they had left. I sense the House was probably at its best between 2000 and 2010.