海伦·纽拉夫，其丈夫加里于2007被谋杀，将有望被提拔至英国上议院议员。

Helen Newlove, whose husband Gary was murdered in 2007, is expected to be elevated to the House of Lords.

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第一，这次选举是选上议院议员而不是下议院议员，而且选举程序怪异的恪守堪称英国臭名昭著的灵活的法制体系。

First, the vote was for a new member of the House of Lords rather than the Commons, and by an odd procedure that strains even Britain's notoriously elastic constitutional arrangements.

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今夏当选英国首相呼声最高的现财政大臣戈登·布朗，赞成80%的上议院议员由选举产生。

Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer and probable prime minister from this summer, preferred a chamber with 80% of its members elected.

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