He said the aim would be "not to make the Lords as equal in political strength as the Commons, maybe doing it in a different way, with a different electoral system from the Commons".

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He quoted from Kurt Vonnegut Jr's short story Harrison Bergeron, contained in the novel Welcome To The Monkey House, which says by 2081 "everybody was finally of equal strength intelligence and beauty" due to the "unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General".

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