With others hoping to be sent to the House of Lords, there is pressure to ditch a coalition pledge to Lib Dems to create a mostly elected upper house.

由于另一些人希望可以因此进入上议院，迫于压力他可能会违背诺言，不再与自民党一起推行民选上议院制度。

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The House of Lords is the Upper House of the British Parliament.

贵族院就是英国议会的上院。

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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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