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  House of Lords Reform - Exclusion of Hereditary Peers
  
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  The majority Aye voters approved the idea, in principle, of bringing in a Bill to remove the remaining hereditary peers who sit in the House of Lords.[1]
  
  This Bill would repeal [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1999/ukpga_19990034_en_1#l1g2 section 2 of the House of Lords Act 1999]. Section 2 was a [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=1999-11-10&number=318&dmp=837 compromise between Tony Blair and Viscount Cranborne], the then Leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords, to allow 92 hereditary peers to retain their seats in the Lords.
  
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  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2003-07-08.898.1 David Winnick MP], 8 July 2003, House of Commons
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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