MPs opinions on bills are, in the modern era, outsourced to ideologically-aligned think tanks. Watch a bill debate, and note how every contribution is a paraphrase of something a think tank's spokesperson will have said on a podcast or news debate show in the preceding days.
#UKPolitics #HouseOfLords
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