“When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.”

On Independent Radio News (12 November 1976), quoted in The Times (13 November 1976), p. 2
1970s

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“When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.”

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