On January 20th, it published a white paper on the future of the House of Lords which admitted that the Law Lords' membership of the upper house was an anomaly, but shied away from proposing any alternative.

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Mr Clegg may also be asked about the creation of more Lords to join the already crowded benches of the Upper House and about his party's attitude to amendments to e Defamation Bill, that could enact Lord Leveson's core proposals on press regulation....watch this space.

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Thatcher left No. 10 Downing Street on Nov. 28, 1990, and went to sit in the House of Lords, the upper house of the U.K. Parliament.

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Thatcher left Number 10 Downing Street on Nov. 28, 1990, and went to sit in the House of Lords, the upper house of the U.K. Parliament.

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During his induction into the Upper House, Lord Kinnock was accompanied by Lords Leader Baroness Amos and Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, a former aide to the ex-Labour leader.

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He was appointed to the Lords, the upper house, but did not speak there for 15 years out of a reluctance to clash with former colleagues.

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Yet the House of Lords is powerful: it can delay legislation for longer than the upper houses in France and Spain, both of which are elected.

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Appointed a life peer in the House of Lords, she held junior ministerial posts before becoming leader of the upper house of Parliament, a big job with cabinet status, where she earned a reputation as a shrewd political manager.

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It is certainly odd (but not unique: look at Britain's House of Lords) that in such a country nine of the 47 members of the upper house should be non-elected, four of them indeed nominated by the armed forces.

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Opening the first of two days of debate on the House of Lords Reform Bill at second reading on 9 July 2012, Mr Clegg said the upper house was "unsustainable" and "flawed".

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The government suffered a series of defeats on the proposals in the House of Lords in November and is likely to encounter continued opposition when the legislation returns to the Upper House in the coming weeks.

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