Youngest Peer Pushed for Public to Have Say On Whether Chamber Should Stay Unelected

Reform of the House of Lords is long overdue – now we must act

The reform of the House of Lords has been on the cards for centuries. It was actually abolished in 1649, but re-instated a few years later (along with the monarchy), and has remained the subject of intense debate ever since. The idea of unelected peers having inherited access to parliament, alongside crony appointees and establishment […]

Youngest Peer Pushed for Public to Have Say On Whether Chamber Should Stay Unelected

The debate on how to reform the House of Lords has gone on for many generations. It began before this but the 1911 Preamble to the Parliament Act commits to replacing the Lords with a Chamber constituted on a popular not hereditary basis. Over a century later, we are still waiting. Recently, Peers debated a Bill that would take a modest step towards that ambition and allow the public to have their say on what should replace the House of Lords. Y…