James Landale
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231 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 Jun
James Landale’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And of course, the moment they got in, they fell in love with it and sort of rather liked it.
as everybody always does.
And then realised they could create their own peers too.
And could create their own peers.
And I remember, and then so Tony Blair sort of set off to sort of get rid of hereditary peers.
And then, of course, the peers brilliantly fought a rearguard action, as the British aristocracy had done ever since the early 1800s, you know, during the Reform Acts and all that, where they ceded power
inch by inch, bill by bill, from the Reform Acts and then up to the legislation in the early 1900s when the House of Lords had some of its powers constrained and all of this sort of thing.
And exactly the same thing happened in the late 1990s.
And Tony Blair thought he was getting rid of the hereditaries then.
But a guy called at the time, his name was Robert Cranbourne, Lord Cranbourne.
He's now Robert Salisbury or Lord Salisbury.
And he was the leader of the Conservative leader in the House of Lords.
And this was the era when William Hague was prime minister.
And he basically did- William Hague was leader of the opposition.
Wanted to be prime minister.
Wanted to be prime minister, exactly.
And basically went behind William Hague's back and did a deal, private deal with Downing Street and Blair.
And basically said, okay, we will eventually let your reforms through, but you are going to save 92 hereditaries who are going to carry on.
And he did this deal without telling Haig.
And so Haig had to sack him.
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