According to The Telegraph:
…legislation had originally been introduced to allow dukes, earls, viscounts and other hereditary peers to pass their titles along a female line of succession.
Miss Stuart Taylor said: “…I have been brought up believing that girls are equal to boys…. Everything is equal….”
Mary Macleod, the Conservative MP and former royal aide, who supports the proposed legislation, said: “…Anyone I spoke to about it felt incredulous that still, today in this day and age, girls and boys…were not given equality of opportunity in terms of heredity peerages and estate.”
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