27 APRIL 1996, Page 23

Lords and Lloyd's . . .

GIVING evidence to a commmitee of the House of Lords can be unnerving. It entails (or so I am told) being questioned by peo- ple who you thought had died several years ago. As the session goes on, you wonder if you had got it right the first time. Ron San- dler, Lloyd's of London's latest model of a chief executive, survived the near-death experience this week. Two hundred of their Lordships are members of Lloyd's, where even death would not relieve them of their liabilities. They were cross to see so many Lloyd's professionals still living so high off the hog — Lord Orr-Ewing thought that there should be community of suffering but were encouraged to think that there might be life after Lloyd's.