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Times letters: Suggestions for reform of the House of Lords

The Times/The Sunday Times 10 Nov 2022
Sir, Alice Thomson (“Slimeballs and toadies have no place in the Lords”, Nov 9) identifies some of the problems with the House of Lords but comes ...
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Times letters: ‘Overdue’ reform of the House of Lords

The Times/The Sunday Times 11 Nov 2021
Sir, Alice Thomson says that “no one can be bothered” to reform the Lords (“Time to reform this shabby House of Lords”, Nov 10) ... of Lords is to.
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Parliament set to debate sweeping reforms of the House of Lords after petition calling for its abolition attracts more than 166,000 signatures

This is Money 24 May 2018
Parliament is to debate sweeping reforms of the House of Lords next month amid rising concern that peers have overstepped the mark in their opposition to Brexit ... Parliament is to debate sweeping reforms of the House of Lords next month amid rising concern that peers have overstepped the mark in their opposition to Brexit.
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Radical reform of the House of Lords is vital – that’s why I’m glad to be a member

The Guardian 27 Aug 2015
A key part of my decision was that legislation for radical reform of the Lords can only be delivered with the backing of the Lords themselves, and they have always been resistant ... not threaten the supremacy of the House of Commons – an objection often voiced against reform.
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The fight for reform of the House of Lords

The Guardian 04 Aug 2013
The House of Lords ... Your leader (Editorial, 2 August) on the House of Lords is entirely correct in describing the present method by which one house of parliament is selected as "constitutionally enfeebling" ... Just 12 months, ago the coalition's bill to create a basically democratic House of Lords received a record majority of 338 votes in the Commons.
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Mac on... Reform of the House of Lords

The Daily Mail 24 Apr 2012
'Perkins, until there are reforms of the Upper Chamber it's "Good morning, my Lord and Lady" not "Ow do, Sid and Vera!" ' ... EDITOR'S BEST OF THE WEB ... Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group       ...
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Clegg pledges to push through reform of the House of Lords blasting it as 'an ...

The Daily Mail 19 Dec 2011
Nick Clegg, pictured today, vowed that reform of the House of Lords will go ahead as he delivered the annual Demos Lecture at Westminster Central Hall ... Nick Clegg today promised to use the Parliament Act if necessary to push through reform of the House of Lords ... 'So we will have a House of Lords reform Bill in the second session of this Parliament.
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David Steel attacks Nick Clegg's reform of the House of Lords

The Guardian 05 Jun 2011
The Liberal Democrat grandee Lord Steel has launched the strongest attack yet on Nick Clegg's plans to reform the House of Lords ... While reform of the House of Lords is in the coalition agreement it is, as yet, unclear whether David Cameron will give Clegg's bill support as it makes its way through the Commons and the Lords.
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The Earl of Onslow: Colourful hereditary peer who advocated reform of the House of Lords

The Independent 01 Jun 2011
Although he could be very funny about his ancestry - the Earldom had been a bribe to secure a previous Onslow's support for the Act of Union with Ireland, his earlier ancestors had been cattle thieves - membership of the House of Lords gave Onslow the confidence to express his views and a platform from which to air them.
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Jack Straw shelves reform of the House of Lords

London Evening Standard 15 Jul 2008
Jack Straw has unveiled proposals to cut the number of peers in the House of Lords by nearly 300. Plans to end 1,000 years of Parliamentary history by shaking up the House of Lords have been shelved until after the next general election ... Mr Straw unveiled the proposals in a White Paper after cross-party talks over the future of the upper house.
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Steve Richards: Getting out of a political fix is no reason for a rushed reform of the House of Lords

The Independent 18 Jul 2006
It is an easy and lazy reflex action to declare knowingly, "I don't trust the lot of them" ... disputes through the unavoidably devious manoeuvrings of elected politicians is the use of violent force.
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Reform of the House of Lords

The Times 14 Apr 2003
Sir, Karen Bartlett argues that the position of the House of Lords “must be resolved” by instituting a fully elected House ... These include the method of appointment, the reform of the House’s archaic procedures and the even more archaic perpetuation of the hereditary peerage.
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Reform of the House of Lords is just a diversion from reforming the Commons

The Independent 03 Feb 2003
Tomorrow, it will hold a debate on the House of Lords; a doubly pointless exercise ... It is also the wrong question, for the House of Lords is a second-order issue; the primacy of the Commons is assured ... Tomorrow, it will hold a debate on the House of Lords; a doubly pointless exercise ... But House of Lords reform can do nothing to achieve this.
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New and old ideas for reform of the House of Lords

The Times 15 Jan 2002
Sir, Professor Sir Dillwyn Williams’s proposed referendum on reform of the Upper House (letter, January 10) would not be enough for those of us impatient to ring down the curtain on this tediously overlong-running comic opera ... of a further tranche of professional politicians.
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Any reform of the House of Lords risks creating a chamber of horrors

The Times 08 Nov 2001
Any detailed plan for House of Lords reform is usually attacked on the one side by those in favour of more reform, on another by those in favour of no reform at all and on a third front by those who want to tear down the Lords altogether, as Dennis Skinner proposed in the Commons yesterday.

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