Peers past test
NZPA London Britain’s 1200 peers have kept their $B4 a day fob in the House of Lords by a comfortable majority after the first test of their popularity under the Con- ; servative Government. A Labour-sponsored bill to abolish the Upper House was rejected by 240 votes to 142 in the House of Commons, just more than half the Labour members voting, although abolition forms part of official Labour policy.
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Press, 10 May 1980, Page 22
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