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Robbie Griffiths

Londoner’s Diary: Nicky Morgan calls for Lords gender equality

Peer Nicky Morgan says women members of the House of Lords should be able to pass on their titles to their spouses just as men do. “A lord’s wife becomes a lady”, Morgan, right, told us last night, and yet “you don’t pass a title on to a same sex partner, nor a baroness to her husband”.

The former education secretary became Baroness Morgan of Cotes in 2020. Morgan was speaking at the launch of Peter Cardwell’s book The Secret Lives of Special Advisors last night.

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