Hold my Peer! – Alf Dubs on useless Braverman, shabby Tories and electing the Lords
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The Struggles of the Labour Government on Unaccompanied Rights
Do peers have more freedom to be independent or is the pressure from the whip still intense? Well, it doesn't matter so much here because there are a lot of people here who are not that ambitious. So to that extent, the whips are not as strong. By having a large number of crossbenchers, they're totally independent of all this. And therefore, it helps to make it not too much of a party issue. But we still have a three line whip on issues, so on some issues. There is a discipline, but it's not the same as in commons. The argument of our children has gone on ever since. Are you surprised that it's been such a
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