Lord Stevenson said ordinary people cannot "debate" and that is why no "ordinary" person was admitted to the House of Lords.
I appeared on BBC2's Newsnight on April 26 with Lord Stevenson, Sir David Hannay (former ambassador to the UN), Valerie Howard (chief executive of Childline) and, of course, Jeremy Paxman.
As a rejected peer, I was invited on to the programme to give my views.
I am an ordinary person who went on live television. I think I did rather well.
-Peter Mitchell, Thyme Close, Shoreham
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