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Blair nears deal on elected Lords

Written by David Cracknell and published in Sunday Times on Mon 24th Apr 2006

TONY BLAIR is poised to do a deal on reform of the House of Lords as part of a legislative programme next year intended to form his legacy and to give a further sign of his determination not to make an early exit from Downing Street.

Government officials say they believe they are close to agreeing with the political parties that the upper chamber should become a mainly elected body.

The compromise would see 70% of peers being elected — probably on the same day as the next general election — with the rest being appointed. The 92 hereditary peers remaining after the last reform in 1999 would lose their seats.

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