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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Ninian Wilson

Peers in uproar over plans to move House of Lords north of London

Michael Gove has previously suggested the House of Lords be moved to Glasgow

A CALL to split up the two Houses of Parliament and move the Lords to another part of the country has been branded a Government “power grab” at Westminster.

The warning came after Cabinet minister Michael Gove suggested the upper chamber could move to Stoke-on-Trent during the multi-billion pound restoration of the parliamentary estate.

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