So hereditary landed aristocracy was only detached from the formal government of the U.K. in like 1999

As part of a Blairite New Labor campaign that used fox hunting of all things as its pretext

That allowed the new “symbolic manipulator” gentry, the ones later to become anti-Corbyn “centrist dads”, to still think of themselves as upstart underdogs by taking sides against literal hereditary aristocracy

That ALSO placated the hardcore republicans-as-in-end-the-monarchy at a time when Diana had just reenchanted it for another generation at least

(That DID ultimately terminate aristocratic rule thru peaceful legislation, that’s a real, British thing)

New Labour was a Lib/Lab coalition within one disciplined party, that was the conceit