Public Wants Much Greater Lords Reform than Government’s Modest Plan – New Survey

House of Lords votes to block expulsion of hereditary peers

Peers supported an amendment to the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill that would instead see a gradual reduction of bloodline peers.

Public wants much greater Lords reform than government’s modest plan – new survey

Flickr/House of Lords, CC BY-NC-NDThe UK government’s proposal to reform the House of Lords has now reached a crucial stage – with parliamentarians having a final chance to amend the bill outlining the plan before it becomes law. The House of Lords (hereditary peers) bill does one simple thing: remove the remaining hereditary peers from membership of the chamber. But a new survey commissioned by the UCL Constitution Unit from YouGov shows that t…

Removing hereditary peers is not enough to reform Lords, poll suggests | Lords reform - EUROPE SAYS

Plans to change the House of Lords by removing only the remaining hereditary peers do not go far enough in the eyes of the public, polling suggests.