TONY Blair ought to heed the size of the 210-to-165 majority by which the House of Lords rightly and clearly rejected the Government's plan to repeal the Section 28 law banning the promotion of homosexuality in schools.

This is because it reflects the level of disapproval among voters over this law being ripped up.

And, with the peers joining the people as well as the high priests of all Britain's major faiths, the Government should now ask whether it has more important things to do than immorally foisting gay propaganda on schoolchildren against the wishes of the majority.

Can they all be wrong, Mr Blair?

We shall get a measure of the Government's response to this firm 'No' tomorrow when the Labour-dominated Commons will once again be asked to vote on the lowering of the age of homosexual consent to 16 - an issue on which it has been twice defeated in the Lords.

It is, of course, an irony that the unelected Upper House should much more clearly reflect the wishes of voters - as virtually every opinion poll has shown - when their elected representatives have been so ready to trample on them.

It will be an even greater one if our MPs yet again press on with measures to enable schoolchildren to indulge in gay sex when, as things stand, and the Lords vote shows, their parents do not even want it peddled to them in school lessons.

But that seems unlikely to stop New Labour persisting on both, even if it is not on the people's behalf.

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