Britain’s House of Lords purges itself
The toffs are being culled
They knew they must fall. But they stood anyway. If there is one thing at which the English aristocracy excels it is the brave stand in the face of overwhelming odds. They charged in the Light Brigade. They went over the top in the Somme. And on December 11th Britain’s remaining hereditary peers walked into the House of Lords to face their own end.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Peer pressure”
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