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My Lords, it is a great pleasure to have the opportunity to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady McDonagh, on a distinguished maiden speech. She was careful in managing to avoid undue controversy. She   quite properly paid tribute to her past work for the Labour Party, which has been a devotion of her life. She   is one of a distinguished group of former General Secretaries of the Labour Party. I felt almost that rising immediately after her I ought to have held that post myself.