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I'm Anusha Kellyan and you're listening to Daily Politics from The New Statesman.

And I'm here again with my colleague Will Dunn for our weekly roundup. Hi Will.

Hello.

So we're going to start off with identity politics gone mad of the week.

This is the story of the hereditary peers

being removed from the House of Lords. It's finally a little bit of House of Lords reform

has passed. What a shame. Yeah. And just as Lord Benjamin Mancroft told the FT, lunch at the

FT recently, you couldn't treat any other group in our society,

Jew, Muslim, black, white, disabled the way we're being treated because it's discriminatory.

Won't someone think of the hereditary peers?

Yeah, it's an embarrassing moment for the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho,

which will be left as the only legislature in the world that will still have hereditary members.

Oh, wow.

So they'll still have, I think it's 22 tribal leaders who are still hereditary members of their second chamber.

I love how fewer there are there and then there are

92 hereditary peerages, I think we have that are coming to an end.

Although, when you read a headline

that says, as the BBC News headline did,

hereditary peers to be removed from lords,

you might think that that means the hereditary peers are going to be

removed from the lords. No, no, no, no, no, this is Britain. We'll actually do things. We say we're

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