Paul Tyler slams David Steel over Lords reform
One for those who have followed the details of internal Liberal Democrat debates over House of Lords reform… … Read the full post »
Read my posts about the upper chamber in Parliament, the House of Lords. Despite over a century of promised and attempted democratic reforms, it is still unelected, and even still has some hereditary peers in it.
One for those who have followed the details of internal Liberal Democrat debates over House of Lords reform… … Read the full post »
Here are the new Liberal Democrat members of the House of Lords. … Read the full post »
My money is one there being at least one name missing from the speculation about who will be in the next raft of Liberal Democrats appointed to the Lords. … Read the full post »
If I’d been at the press briefing for Helena Morrissey’s report into the Liberal Democrats (which, as I’ve said, is well worth a read for its accurate and thoughtful insight into the culture of political parties), this is what I’d have asked… … Read the full post »
Here is what the Federal Executive’s report to the Autumn Liberal Democrat Conference says on the future of the Interim Peers Panel. … Read the full post »
This week’s Politics Weekly podcast from The Guardian features, ahem, myself alongside Martin Kettle, Nick Cohen and Tom Clark. … Read the full post »
I strongly suspect that for all political parties there is a common pattern: what seems sensible and logical to those on the inside often seems baffling and weird to those on the outside. … Read the full post »
Here’s Nick Robinson’s take on yesterday’s events followed by myself, via the BBC News Channel. … Read the full post »
Imagine the situation. You are a Liberal Democrat peer. You have voted for several measures you did not like because they were in the Coalition Agreement. … Read the full post »
Major developments in plans to change how our rulers are chosen. … Read the full post »