HERE'S a difficult one. You might have thought the answer was obvious but the nasty affair of the Tory paymaster's struggle to get into the House of Lords also exposes New Labour's failure to clean up politics.
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We are no nearer an elected senate than we were. I was delighted to see the hereditary peers go. As I said at the time, if the hereditary principle was right for politics, we'd be run today by Mark Thatcher or Lord Callaghan's daughter. They will simply conclude that the Government has failed to sort out the Lords after all. That democracy smells no sweeter than it did.