Charles Moore’s Notes: If peers aren’t to be elected, they should be impossible to get rid of

Obviously when one attends what the papers call ‘cocaine-fuelled orgies’, one expects to find several members of the peerage present, but I must confess that until all this trouble, I had not heard of Lord Sewel, beyond a vague apprehension that he was a misprint rather than a person. I now discover that he is a Blair peer — a specially ignominious category, rather like Lloyd George’s creations.

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Charles Moore’s Notes: If peers aren’t to be elected, they should be impossible to get rid of

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