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I will make a touch more progress before I take another intervention from the hon.

I am grateful to be called in this important debate.

I thank the hon. Member for his question. I do support their removal, but as part of a broader package of measures.

I will give way again.

I thank the hon. Member for his question. I do support their removal, but as part of a broader package of measures.

I totally agree with the hon. Member.

I will make a touch more progress before I take another intervention from the hon.

I certainly did not find it in Basildon and Billericay—or in Romford when I visited it with my hon.

I think that the hon. Member is missing my point. We have to see this as part of a package. Lord Irvine spoke about it in 1999.

Not again. Currently, Members of the House of Lords are there by birthright or appointed by God, as it were, or the Prime Minister.