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The Lords Resume - and reforms
Monday sees the return of Peers to the chamber of the House. The recess always leaves the House feeling a bit empty even if you do see Lords there from time to time – usually dealing with corres… more →
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The Lords Resume - and reforms
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wrote 2 months ago: Monday sees the return of Peers to the chamber of the House. The recess always leaves the House feel … more →
Speaker Bercow calls on MPs to be 'fearless champions'
wrote 3 months ago: The Speaker of the House of Commons set out a ten-point plan for reform in a speech to the Hansard S … more →
Bercow's 10 point plan for a new House of Commons
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wrote 3 months ago: Here is a full transcript of the speech given by Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow to the … more →
Tories plan radical Commons reform
wrote 3 months ago: by ePolitix.com The Conservatives have pledged to shake up the way legislation is passed by the Comm … more →
Lord Aberdare elected to sit in Lords after hereditary peers by-election
wrote 5 months ago: The Clerk of the Parliaments announced the result of the by-election to elect a Cross-Bench heredita … more →
Former Shadow Lord Chancellor Lord Kingsland dies aged 67
wrote 5 months ago: Christopher James Prout, Baron Kingsland, died yesterday from a pulmanory embolism. He was 67. The C … more →
MPs should be cut to 250 and paid £30,000 a year says UKIP peer
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wrote 6 months ago: MPs stand at the bar of the Lords at the State Opening of Parliament by Tony Grew A member of the Ho … more →
An argument made of straw
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wrote 6 months ago: Yesterday, The Sunday Times carried an article by Jack Straw (‘Out with the Lords, in with the … more →
Prime Minister presents changes to parliament but rules out referendum
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wrote 6 months ago: by Tony Grew The House of Commons will give up its independence and submit to a new Parliamentary St … more →
Lambeth Councillor At Lambeth Palace
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wrote 7 months ago: Primate and Politician Last evening I attended a gathering at Lambeth Palace, hosted by the Archbi … more →
Constitutional reform is not the answer
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wrote 7 months ago: A number of politicians have rushed in to argue that constitutional reform – be it proportiona … more →
Allowances again
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wrote 7 months ago: Lord Norton’s got an interesting thread going, Lord Soley’s said his bit again and I … more →
Allegations against members
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wrote 11 months ago: I am not going to comment on the allegations against the four Members named in the press as they hav … more →
Machiavellian
wrote 12 months ago: “I have found among my possessions none that I so much prize and esteem as a knowledge of the … more →
Experience and expertise
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wrote 1 year ago: Lord Tyler makes some interesting points but none that undermines the points advanced against electi … more →
Peers' expenses
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wrote 1 year ago: The way we are paid expenses in the Lords is sleazy, embarrassing and I hate it. A lot of crossbenc … more →
Laws are like sausages?
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wrote 1 year ago: Bismarck said, according to Susanna Kalitowski from the Hansard Society, that “Laws are like s … more →
Appalling mess of Lords reform
wrote 1 year ago: So on reading this article on the BBC News site, we learn the rather disturbing news that, stopping … more →
Lords reform White Paper
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wrote 1 year ago: The Government White Paper on Lords reform is expected to be published tomorrow (Monday). I and ot … more →
