This caught my eye in the Number 10 morning press briefing from 4 May 2006

Asked if the Prime Minister had sanctioned a peerage to Peter Law, the PMOS said that it was not only a party matter, but also, as people knew, the PMOS did not talk about the nomination process for the House of Lords.

The House of Lords are our legislators, for crying out loud. They make our laws. And the official spokesman of the person who chooses them is not allowed to talk about the process for putting them there?