I was recently channel surfing when I spotted
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Lord Fowler’s term began in 2016 and was not due to end until September this year. However, in February the former transport and health secretary in Margaret Thatcher’s government announced that “a range of important changes” taking place within the upper house should be overseen by the team who will see them through.
On announcing his retirement from the role, the 83-year-old, whose parliamentary career spans more than 50 years, told the House that the job comes with “one grave disadvantage” – that “I am not able to speak my mind on the issues of the day”.
He stands down to begin a career as an “entirely independent backbencher, able to speak out on political issues that concern me” and to “have the freedom to campaign, particularly on the area of HIV and AIDs”, he explained during his address to the House in February. As secretary of state for health and social security in 1987, Lord Fowler spearheaded the “Don’t Die of Ignorance” campaign that i