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Business of the House

I rather thought that that was how the hereditary peerage worked anyway. I know that the Conservatives secretly regret the passing of the hereditary peerage: they have certainly never given us much assistance in that and for many years they have relied on the hereditary peers to frustrate the will of the elected Labour Government. The hon. Gentleman makes his point in an entertaining way, but if we were to have such a debate, is he guaranteeing that his Front-Bench colleagues would reveal whether any Conservative peers have been elevated to that rank as a result of making an undisclosed loan to the Conservative party?