The thinking is that five years is a suitable term for a Speaker, and actually in five years we'd have a fair amount of turnover in the sense that we've had a lot of new members in the last five years.
October 2nd, 2014 / 11:35 a.m.
Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The thinking is that five years is a suitable term for a Speaker, and actually in five years we'd have a fair amount of turnover in the sense that we've had a lot of new members in the last five years.
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