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Letter: Lords of misrule

David Barron
Wednesday 01 April 1998 23:02 BST
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YOUR REPORT "People's Lords to replace hereditary peers" (1 April) reminds me of Lloyd George, who 88 years ago said that the members of the House of Lords were "ordinary men ... chosen accidentally from the ranks of the unemployed".

DAVID BARRON

London SW15

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