House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

Johanna Baxter Excerpts
Tuesday 12th November 2024

(1 day, 10 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Pete Wishart Portrait Pete Wishart
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What is wrong with that? Maybe the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Gareth Snell) will tell me, but first I give way to the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire South (Johanna Baxter).

Johanna Baxter Portrait Johanna Baxter (Paisley and Renfrewshire South) (Lab)
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Is the reason the hon. Gentleman’s amendment refers only to the first three UK establishment parties so that it does not affect his own party, now that it has fallen to being the fourth largest party in this place?

Pete Wishart Portrait Pete Wishart
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We do not put people in the House of Lords. If people want to give us a million pounds, they can—please, if anyone is watching on TV, we could do with a million pounds. Sorry to disappoint anybody thinking about doing that, because we cannot give them a place in the House of Lords. I will give way one last time to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central, who I have given way to once already.