Jeffrey Archer Watch: Primogeniture

More from Jeffrey Archer land with his latest post, which seeks to exploit the birth of a royal child by reminding us of Jeffrey's own illustrious legislative past:

The archaic law that suggests that every woman should be pushed aside in favour of a man when it comes to ascending the throne is obscene. In 1998 I presented a Primogeniture Bill to the House of Lords which was granted its first and second reading, and at the request of the government (Baroness Jay) I withdrew my Bill on the understanding that the government would bring in its own Bill in the near future.

Memo to Alanis Morrissette: rain on your wedding day is not irony. A man introducing a change to an "archaic law" in a non-elected chamber and in reference to an unelected national leader who holds sweeping constitutional powers because of who her parents were: that's irony.