UK's scandal-hit Lords enjoy rare day in sun
London
SNIFFING white powder with prostitutes, expenses scandals - members of Britain's House of Lords usually only hit the headlines for their colourful extra-curricular activities, but one recent debate proved an exception.
The unelected upper chamber of Parliament last Monday held a series of votes which forced Prime Minister David Cameron's government to rethink a controversial part of its austerity drive.
The result has reminded the public that the Lords are more than a group of ageing grandees nodding off on red leather benches after lunch.
"I haven't been stopped so many times getting on the train as I have been in the last few days with people saying: 'It's just really good you did that'," Steve Bassam, Lab…
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