"I think there is a strong reason for having PR as the method of election to the House of Lords because I do not think anyone would want to reproduce the House of Commons of the day in the second Chamber."
— Alec Douglas-Home

January 1, 1970

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Press conference at Conservative Central Office (20 March 1978), quoted in The Times (21 March 1978), p. 2