Lords Hansard - Part 1 & Committee stage
Monday 28th March 2022

(2 years, 8 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Rooker Portrait Lord Rooker (Lab)
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My Lords, I have a question—and I did not come in to speak either. Since I have been a Member of this House, which is 20 years, there is at least one Member—I think only one—who was here when I arrived, subsequently got elected to the other place and is now back here. Yes, he is here today. At the time that he left this place and got elected to the other place, was he able to vote in the election he stood in? I am not sure what his status would have been.

Viscount Thurso Portrait Viscount Thurso (LD)
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Yes, I was allowed to vote.

Lord Rooker Portrait Lord Rooker (Lab)
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Well, that is the answer to my question.