Baroness Boothroyd rips Nick Clegg's proposals for an elected "Senate" to pieces.

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The bill being debated in this video is the House of Lords Reform Bill [HL], which is a lot more sensible than the government's proposals. You can read about it here: http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2...

Betty Boothroyd was a Labour MP from 1973 to 1992, when she was elected the first ever female Speaker of the House of Commons. On retiring in 2000 she was created a Life Peer and sits as a Crossbencher.