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Can you imagine a lobbyist against women’s rights being made a peer?

12 September 2019

8:59 PM

12 September 2019

8:59 PM

This is a thought-experiment. Imagine the following scenario:

A Conservative Prime Minister is dishing out peerages. Among the people given a lifelong right to sit in the House of Lords and vote on new laws is a lobbyist who has conducted a long campaign to diminish women’s rights under the law.

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