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Cabinet split over elected Lords as 'old guard' rebels

Written by Andrew Grice and published in Independent on Tue 25th Apr 2006

Tony Blair is facing a rebellion by senior cabinet ministers against plans for most members of the House of Lords to be directly elected by the public.

The Prime Minister, who in the past has opposed a "hybrid" second chamber that was partly elected and partly appointed, is warming to the idea of 70 per cent of its members being chosen by the voters.

But a cabinet split has broken out between "old guard" ministers, who want to preserve the supremacy of the wholly elected Commons, and more junior members who are pressing for reform. "It's the old guard against the younger ones," said one Blair aide.

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