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Does the House of Lords need a rapid rebuttal unit?

The House of Lords should do more to defend its reputation, Conservative peer Lord Hodgson has said, and suggested a "rapid rebuttal unit".

He said "misreported" stories are often "left to run and are not corrected".

"It's about making sure that the real facts about what the House does are reported," he told Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn. But he insisted it was not about self-promotion.

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