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UNAIDS welcomes Lord Fowler as an ambassador

Campaigning group urges new Lord Speaker to abolish aristocrat elections

An organisation promoting electoral reform is urging the new Lord Speaker to abolish a controversial system of replacing hereditary members in the House of Lords. The Electoral Reform Society called resuming the by-elections a “sign of very warped priorities” and urged Lord McFall of Alcluith, set to replace Lord Fowler as Lord Speaker, to take action on the “absurd practice”. The system used to choose which aristocrats get to sit in the upper chamber has been put on hold since last March in the light of the coronavirus crisis. However, House of Lords authorities have announced that by-elections are set to resume, with four places to be filled by the end of July ahead of the summer recess.

Outgoing Lord Speaker calls for Covid inquiry as soon as possible

The outgoing Lord Speaker has piled the pressure on Boris Johnson to launch a formal public inquiry into the Government s handling of the coronavirus crisis.  Lord Fowler, who is stepping down today after five years in the role, said a probe should be held as soon as possible and before memories fade .  Lord Fowler, who served as Tory health secretary between 1981 and 1987 in Margaret Thatcher s government, said the inquiry should be automatic and should focus on whether there was a delay to announcing the first lockdown last March.    The peer is the latest high profile figure to call on the Prime Minister to launch the inquiry after Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said the same earlier this month. 

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