How very neat and tidy. The Hard Right, outspokenly anti-Cameron Patrick Mercer is followed by the impeccably upper-class, socially liberal, extremely environmentalist Tim Yeo, who in any case would probably have retired in 2015, when he will be 70.
In the meantime, he is quite clubbable enough to have agreed to take one for the team, as he himself would never dream of putting it. He may lose the Whip. He probably won't. He may lose his Committee Chairmanship. He probably will. But in any event, Cameron's hit against one of his own archenemies will have been obscured, and the cause of impeccably upper-class, socially liberal, extremely environmentalist Toryism will continue to be advanced.
The two Labour Peers, on the other hand, came from a single, very specific position within their party: that part of the Old Labour right-wing machine, especially in what has always been its greatest citadel of the North East and supremely of County Durham, which not only went along with New Labour despite that phenomenon's totally New Leftist roots and methods, but which (and this is where it becomes an extremely narrow faction) remained loyal to New Labour to the bitter end, and remains so even down to the present day.
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