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What's the point of the House of Lords?
Lord Sewel has resigned from the House of Lords after being filmed allegedly taking drugs with prostitutes.
Footage obtained by The Sun on Sunday appeared to show the peer - who had been deputy speaker of the Lords - snorting powder from a woman's breasts.
As a result of the scandal, some of you have been asking, "What's the point of the House of Lords?".
Norman Smith looks at the facts and figures.
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