The House recently lost another doughty member in the form of Lord Ashley of Stoke. Jack Ashley, when he was an MP, lost his hearing. He learned to lip-read and later regained some partial hearing. In the Lords, he had the facility of a machine that transposed what was being said into words on a…
The Lords returned yesterday. The main business was a debate on the role of the charitable sector in strengthening civil society, introduced for the Government by Lord Taylor of Holbeach. Thirty-seven peers spoke in the debate. It was an extremely good debate, notable for the fact that no less than seven new peers made maiden speeches. Perhaps the…
