I bet David Cameron now wishes he hadn’t said this
David Cameron on Lords reform during the general election TV debates. … Read the full post »
House of Lords
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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.
House of Lords reform: what next?
Four quick thoughts before I go off in search of chocolate, pizza and friends (in reverse order of priority, of course). … Read the full post »
House of Lords reform: my letter to Lib Dem News
Richard Balmer raises the old argument that having unelected peers in the House of Lords is good because it means outside experts are able to scrutinise legislation. … Read the full post »
The compromiser’s dilemma: House of Lords reform
You propose something. Someone objects to it, giving many reasons. You offer to make some changes to meet some of the objections. A deal is made and progress is achieved. … Read the full post »
How does David Cameron charm the Liberal Democrats?
This week’s falling out between the coalition partners over Lords reform leaves David Cameron with two tricky problems to mull over the summer. … Read the full post »
Federal Executive cancels Interim Peers Panel elections
As Michael Crick and Jonathan Calder have picked up on, the elections due this autumn for the Liberal Democrat Interim Peers Panel have been dropped. … Read the full post »
The best reason for House of Lords reform is one almost nobody mentions
The voters have cast their verdict and an MP is out of office. What should happen to them next? … Read the full post »
Kennedy and The Guardian on Lords reform
Following yesterday’s Thornsby and Ashdown on Lords reform, here is another couple of bites for today. … Read the full post »
This is what an honest MP opposed to Lords reform would say
Interlocutor: What’s all this about needing experts in the Lords? Don’t MPs sit through debates and vote on everything, so aren’t you pretty knowledgeable about what you are doing? … Read the full post »
Nick Thornsby and Paddy Ashdown on House of Lords reform
Here’s the Prime Minister speaking just weeks before the 2010 general election in the leadership debates, where he couldn’t have been clearer in his support for a mainly or wholly elected chamber… … Read the full post »