House of Lords reform Articles

Parliament's most elitist election shows why government should bring the era of unelected lawmaking to a close altogether, writes Darren Hughes In 1999, the House of Lords Act removed all but 92 of the ‘backwoodsmen’ – the hundreds of (almost entirely Conservative)...

Nicky Morgan’s speech last week on the risk of nurseries being taken over by religious extremists was certainly overblown, indeed the very same article states that: ‘there is no concrete intelligence about individual nurseries that demands immediate attention’, but...

The Labour party has too often lost major figures at the peak of their careers – from Hugh Gaitskell and Tony Crosland to John Smith and Donald Dewar. Ten years ago, on 20 September 2003, added to their number was Gareth Williams, Lord Williams of Mostyn, Labour’s...

Nick Clegg should have read this book before embarking on his ill-fated 2012 proposals. Indeed, it should be on David Cameron and Ed Miliband’s reading list, and on those of serious commentators and students of parliament as well as the new batch of peers. (Just as...