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Anger as Labour Lord Advocate is made a 'cross bench' life peer

Written by Bill Jacobs and published in The Scotsman on Tue 11th Apr 2006

A MAJOR row has broken out over the appointment of Labour's Lord Advocate Colin Boyd as a life peer on the cross benches of the House of Lords.

Shadow Scottish Secretary David Mundell said the appointment among 23 "working" life peers showed Labour's "contempt" for the House of Lords.

He said that Scotland's top prosecutor could not be a member of the government in Scotland and an Independent in the Upper House at Westminster.

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