Unappealing as some life peers are, entitled lords are defending the indefensible

“Twenty-five years ago, countless debates and questions took place in the House,” Strathclyde has informed Baroness Smith, leader of the House, “and, ultimately, we finished up with a consensual way forward agreed among the parties”. Ah. Those would be the events the hereditary Lord Caithness described as “the plague of 99”.