Going forward though, when the next election comes around, I'm thinking that most of your Lords will be familiar with the people who are going to stand for election of Speaker. That's what some of us here see as a problem for us. Frequently we have a whole bunch of new people coming in, and it's the opportunity for people who are brand new to the House to get to know one another and also to learn some of the systems, and we would lose some of that. If I understood correctly, you said that you had 81 members stand for election. We typically would have five or six, so it's a much smaller pool.
On October 2nd, 2014. See this statement in context.