Pour mettre les choses en contexte, je suis devenu chef de la Chambre des lords il y a deux ans environ et, à ce moment, nous avons cerné au moins trois domaines qui méritaient notre attention: il fallait édicter un code de déontologie complet et transparent; assurer le financement adéquat des partis de l'opposition, et nous attaquer, pour ainsi dire, aux procédés de travail archaïques, sinon paléolithiques, qui sont les nôtres.
The background is that after I became leader here about two years ago, we thought there were at least three things at which we should look. One was a comprehensive, transparent code of conduct; the second was adequate financial resources for the opposition parties; and the third was some sort of attack on the rather archaic, not to say Neanderthal, working practices that we actually enjoy.