This is the latest from Alan "That's Lord to You, Boy" Chalfont:
SCOTSMAN
Lords threat to RAF
THE House of Lords may today invoke an obscure order that could ground the RAF in a bid to force Tony Blair to act on a report into the Chinook helicopter disaster. They could withhold approval of a routine armed forces order in response to the Prime Minister's refusal to act on a House of Lords committee report which said the negligence verdict against the Chinook helicopter crash pilots was "unjustifiable".
Lord Chalfont, head of the Parliamentary campaign to clear the pilots, yesterday tabled an amendment to the Armed Forces Discipline Act (Continuation) Order - normally nodded through by the Lords - which, if taken to a vote, could ground the RAF.