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Rachel Hopkins
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Darren Jones
I agree wholeheartedly with the hon. Lady, and the Government have called for anybody with information to do just that.
Rachel Hopkins (Luton South and South Bedfordshire) (Lab)
Many of my constituents, like all of us, will be horrified by the revelations regarding Peter Mandelson and the Epstein files, but they will also be shocked to know that the Government do not have the power to remove peerages. Does the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister agree that it is absolutely right to do whatever is necessary to modernise procedures to allow for the removal of peers and their peerages when they have bought the other place into disrepute?
Darren Jones
My hon. Friend is exactly right, and that is why the Government have written to the appropriate authorities in the other place today to request that that work is now started.