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![]() "Overwhelmingly, for me, the most important issue is next year's intergovernmental conference on the future of the European Union and the question of its enlargement to include Eastern Europe," Wallace said. Wallace said one of his party's goals is to make the House of Lords an elected body. Those nominations were then considered and approved by an all-party committee, before formal approval by the queen. Of a total of 1,000 peers - who hold lifetime appointments - approximately 400 are currently practicing, Wallace said.īritain's political parties submitted their nominations for peers to the prime minister last fall. Also recently named peers were five Conservatives, four members of the Labour Party, and one fellow Liberal Democrat, their numbers dictated by the number of seats each party controls in the House of Commons. 20, Wallace became a peer in the House of Lords, where he will advise house members on foreign policy, defense and European issues and examine legislation from the Parliament's other house, the House of Commons. Now he is serving that party in Parliament. As a graduate student at Cornell University during the 1960s, William Wallace '68 wrote his thesis on the revival of Great Britain's Liberal Party. ![]()
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