Yesterday was a historic day for the House of Lords.
Not because we had a bishop using an iPad from which to deliver his speech. Not because Andrew Lloyd Webber flew first class across the Atlantic for a rare visit so that he could vote for cuts in tax credit for working families, alongside his millionaire colleagues. Nor because the main protagonists were feisty, able women – Baronesses Smith of Basildon, Hollis, Meacher and Manzoor.
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