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The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it.

I agree with the Speaker and have concluded that my other activities do not permit me to devote the time that membership of the Lords properly requires.

The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws.

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

I've been offered a peerage already, and turned it down.