article_snippet.sent: New rules which came into effect last May provide a way for peers to retire permanently while keeping peers titles and certain perks.
article_snippet.sent: ‘If you are putting yourself forward to remain a legislator, then surely you are fit enough to be tested before the law,’ a legislator said.
article_snippet.sent: If a legislator has got a leave of absence from the Lords, that implies that a legislator may get well.
article_snippet.sent: Why isn’t a legislator retiring?
article_snippet.sent: a legislator is bringing the House of the Lords into disrepute almost single-handedly.
article_snippet.sent: Pete Saunders, chief executive of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, added: ‘a legislator couldn’t have signed this letter if a legislator was non compos mentis.
article_snippet.sent: But if a legislator isn’t compos mentis, there’s no way a legislator should be anywhere near our legislature.
article_snippet.sent: How can they say a legislator’s not fit to stand trial for the most serious of crimes when a legislator himself has argued that age should not be a barrier to prosecuting Nazi war criminals?
article_snippet.sent: covering up and ensuring a legislator doesn’t have to take the stand in public.