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I should advocate a much larger scheme and propose to abolish…

Quote byEdward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon · 1862–1933

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to H. H. Asquith (February 1910), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, Grey of Fallodon; Being the Life of Sir Edward Grey afterwards Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1937), p. 172.

English (original)

I should advocate a much larger scheme and propose to abolish altogether the political privilege of Peers, and substitute for the House of Lords a new Second Chamber, much smaller in size than the House of Commons, based upon the elective principle, with if desired a minority of distinguished life-members.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

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