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Viscount Astor
Conservative Peer
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- Became a Lord in 1966
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Viscount Astor voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted moderately against more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately against introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted against equal gay rights. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted moderately against the hunting ban. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Has never voted on allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
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- Occasionally rebels against their party.
Most recent appearances
- House of Lords Reform Bill [HL]: Report (10 Feb 2012)
“The House debated the matter. It did not make any binding decision, therefore it is perfectly open to my noble friend Lord Trefgarne to move his amendment. All I have to say is that I took my seat in your Lordships' House shortly after my 21st birthday, so I have never voted in a general election, but it seems to me perfectly fair that in order to sit here, I should be disbarred from doing...”
- House of Lords Reform Bill [HL]: Report (10 Feb 2012)
“My Lords, if it is for the convenience of your Lordships, perhaps I may also say a brief word about Amendment 288. When we discussed Clauses 15 and 16 in Committee, I made the point that I thought that the party of the noble Lord, Lord Steel, was the forgiving party: that once anybody had served their time and paid their price to society, they should be encouraged to come back into wherever...”
- House of Lords Reform Bill [HL]: Report (10 Feb 2012)
“My Lords, I do not have a clue because luckily I am not a lawyer. As it seems that we have rather a long time available to us, and as I suspect that we will be very short on the remaining amendments, I am briefly moving my amendment to get some elucidation from the noble Lord, Lord Steel, and indeed anybody who is more qualified than I in the legal world. I have no qualifications at all to...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 8 debates in the last year — average amongst Lords.
- Has received answers to 11 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst Lords.
- Has voted in 25.61% of votes in this House with this affiliation — below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 0 annotations on this Lord’s speeches — average amongst Lords.
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- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 302 times in debates — well above average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)