House of Lords Articles

So here we go again, no sooner has the coalition government abandoned its ill thought out proposals for an elected House of Lords, than the ‘something must be done syndrome’ kicks in. The familiar refrains get new airings, ‘the House of Lords is too big’, ‘the House...

Could David Cameron opt to go it alone with a blue-collar, populist agenda, asks Anthony Painter Assuming that the boundary review proposals do not now become law, David Cameron has a big strategic headache. Following defeat of proposals to reform the House of Lords,...

If I were a Lib Dem strategist, I would be praying that the 2015 general election delivers a hung parliament where Labour is the biggest party but needs the Lib Dems to form a government. Why not the Tories? Simply because that risks creating the image (and possibly...

The preamble to the Parliament Act of 1911 described it as an ‘interim measure’ until such times as the second chamber could be constituted on popular basis rather than the hereditary basis. The act’s major change to the power of the House of Lords, to a delaying,...