Bring the Lords into the 21st century – a solution for changing the culture of our second chamber
If there’s one fact that should keep you awake at night, it’s that according to the IFS Britain…
Lords reform
We need to abolish the House of Lords
The Peerage Act of 1963, passed fifty years ago this week, was the first democratic challenge to the…
Cameron is trying to stack the Lords – but the Labour leadership have no right to complain about it
Today (or perhaps tomorrow) the palace will announce around 30 new peers – 15 for the Tories, 10…
Well played Sadiq Khan – but now Labour must deliver
It’s fair to say that Sadiq Khan (and Ed Miliband) both played a blinder – in parliamentary tactic…
Nick Clegg’s Lords Reform embarrassment
July 11th 2012 in an email to Lib Dem activists (emphasis ours): “the Coalition Government is committed to reforming…
Labour’s election hopes just got stronger – thanks to Nick Clegg
Only this morning, we wrote that “a dangerous germ of an idea is now in the Tory body politic…
Sadiq Khan: “Nick Clegg may end up with nothing, ruthlessly exposing his naivety”
Sadiq Khan on Nick Clegg’s probable failure to delievr Lords reform: “Nick Clegg marched his MPs through the…
Around the houses
David Steel’s admirable persistence in seeking incremental improvements to the House of Lords is about to be rewarded…
Nick Clegg’s Choice
Nick Clegg has a choice. He doesn’t have to lose his prized reform of the undemocratic House of…
Nick Clegg is the Lib Dem leader who killed PR
We should not be surprised that the deepest fissure in the Coalition, the one that makes its fracture…
