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SAM BOOTE
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HOLLY MURPHY
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Sir: William Hague appears to have finally found an identity: protector of hereditary peers and brutal dictators. Perhaps he should stick with anonymity.
TIM CROSSLAND
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Sir: It is a great pity that the essentially undemocratic nature of a closed list system for electing MEPs should be obscured by the reform of the even more undemocratic House of Lords.
In a closed list system we could not elect a Martin Bell MEP. Why should even the faint chance of electing independent members be blotted out?
MICHAEL COOPER
Hedgerley,
Buckinghamshire
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