Part of Ambulance Response Times (Local Reporting) – in the House of Commons at 8:45 pm on 26 January 2010.
Well, "young" is a relative term. The average age in the House of Lords is 68.
We do not want the House of Lords to be full of people who have an eye to a future political career at very high level. It is a virtue of the present House of Lords, which I wish to preserve in any future reforms, that it consists of people of moderate, rather than overwhelming, political ambition-