COMMONWEALTH
(British Commonwealth of Nations)
Parliament's Week
House of Lords. A bill introduced in the Commons by Frank Briant, Liberal Member for Lambeth, would enable peeresses in their own right to sit in the House of Lords. Members of all parties, including the well-advertised Lady Astor, support the measure. The bill would affect 24 British peeresses, including the Duchess of Fife, the Countesses of Cromartie, Loudoun and Seafield, Countess Roberts, and Viscountesses Wolseley and Rhondda.
Viscountess Rhondda has led the fight for the admission of peeresses to the Lords. The case was referred to...
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