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Proceeding contribution from Hywel Williams (Plaid Cymru) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 27 April 2006. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Honours System (Reform).


Honours System (Reform)

My predecessor as Member for Caernarfon, Lloyd George, took, in the 1920s, a very straightforward view of the sale of honours as a way of raising money for his political enterprises; does not the contrast with today lie in the amount of pious claptrap about the exchange of honours possibly for political support? Is it not that hypocrisy and claptrap that brings the system into disrepute in the country?


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
445 c330WH 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Subjects
Honours Reform Public Administration Select Committee
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk