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Boris’s babes to join the Lords

8 November 2022

9:37 PM

8 November 2022

9:37 PM

They were the dynamic, priapic premiers who guided their country through a pandemic – and the comparisons between Boris Johnson and David Lloyd George don’t stop there. For no man has done more to advance the cause of Lords reform since the days of the ‘Welsh Wizard’ than Johnson. In his seemingly ongoing quest to destroy the Upper House, this morning’s Times reports that the Old Etonian has nominated some 20 names for life peerages.

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