Clause 32 — Resignation from the House of Lords

Part of Ambulance Response Times (Local Reporting) – in the House of Commons at 9:00 pm on 26 January 2010.

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Photo of Michael Wills Michael Wills Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice 9:00, 26 January 2010

I would usually bow to the right hon. and learned Gentleman's much greater political experience, but he need only look at the history books: often, particularly in the sorts of circumstances to which he refers, seats that party machines thought were safe have proved to be anything but safe because, in the end, there is only so much that the British public will stomach.