Proceeding contribution from Lord Elystan-Morgan (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Monday, 17 January 2011. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill
The noble Lord, for whom I have the highest regard, was more aerated than he recollects. Not only did he mention the end of self-regulation, and referred to the situation at the end of the 19th century, but he used a sentence which I cannot remember exactly but which referred to Fenian obstructionism. The Fenians at that stage in the last quarter of the 19th century were not just parliamentary obstructionists—
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- Boundary commissions Constituency size Constituencies Electoral register House of Lords composition Members Peers Reform
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