Peers have been told to keep their speeches shorter. As Labour’s Lord Kennedy of Southwark put it, there are too many “waffly speeches, waffly questions and waffly answers”. So there was a startled “oh!” in the Upper House when Tory peer Lord Cormack – a noted historian – rose to his feet to “welcome the comments about the length of speeches”. Some peers consider Lord Cormack to be among the most prolix of their lordships, but he was not having any of it. “I speak often, but not at length,” he s