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.@NickyMorgan01 becomes first life peer in cabinet (apart from Lords leader) for decades. This is very old school in terms of our unwritten constitution
Sorry I am WRONG. Mandelson was in cabinet as a lord not that long ago. But @ZacGoldsmith also going to lords and will attend cabinet in his green job. So the lords are suddenly back in government in number.
And Adonis was also in Cabinet for a year under Gordon Brown. So I guess @BorisJohnson is no more an opponent of representative democracy than the last Labour government. It’s been a long week
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And of course Sayeeda Warsi in Cabinet for a while. Under Cameron. But Johnson doubling the quota
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