“There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.”

Quoted in the Independent (25 November 1998).

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“There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.”

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