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Should a trans woman inherit a peerage over their older sister?

23 May 2022

5:40 PM

23 May 2022

5:40 PM

It’s House of Lords reform, Jim, but not as we know it. Matilda Simon has applied to contest the next by-election for hereditary peers, in the hope of taking her hereditary seat as Baron Simon of Wythenshawe. Matilda, Lord Simon? Here, in one story, is a positively combustible mix of the 21st and 11th centuries.

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