12 DECEMBER 1998, Page 28

. . . and Westminster

THE KEEGAN of the class war will want to know what happened in the House of Lords committee room where, last week, William Hague confronted his recalcitrant nobility. The meeting grew later and cross- er and Mr Hague's dome cast an angry glow on the closed-circuit television screen above him. This screen normally relays debates, but some mischievous peer had switched it over to the midnight movie and a sequence of vigorous sexual activity. As their lordships relaxed, smirking, Mr Hague may have thought that the credit was his. A faulty appreciation.