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Mount Olympus to London

Lord Norton

Lord Bates is away from the office at the moment.  He has begun a 2,000-mile walk from Mount Olympus in Greece to London in order to highlight the campaign for an Olympic Truce during London 2012.  As regular readers will know, this is something to which he is strongly committed.  His trip is self-financed and…

Sitting late

Lord Norton

Yesterday was the sixth day in committee on the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.  The Bill has not made rapid progress and yesterday consideration of the Bill was limited by the fact that there were two ministerial statements, an urgent question allowed in the Commons repeated as a statement, and a one-hour Question for…