Christoph Smets: A UK senate: Competition for the Commons or federalising representation?
After the warning shot fired from the ballot boxes of the Scottish electorate in this year’s referendum on independence, the West Lothian question has stirred with renewed power. It seems … Continue reading
James Hand and Donal Coffey: Miliband’s senate of the regions and a constitutional convention conundrum
Ed Miliband’s recent proposal for ‘an elected Senate that properly represents the towns, cities, regions and nations that make up the United Kingdom’ included reference to a ‘UK-wide Constitutional Convention’. … Continue reading
James Hand: Lords response to Labour Peers’ Working Group Report – A Programme for Progress: The future of the House of Lords and its place in wider constitution.
The House of Lords have recently debated the Labour Peers’ Working Group report looking at the future of the House of Lords and its place in a wider constitution. The … Continue reading
Mike Gordon: Time for a Citizens’ Assembly on Lords Reform?
After the collapse of the coalition government’s House of Lords Reform Bill in August, the UK Parliament’s upper chamber remains resolutely unreformed. The substance of this most recent attempt to … Continue reading
Dawn Oliver: Response to Gavin Phillipson on Lords Reform
I feel as bit as if I have been run over by a bulldozer after reading Gavin Phillipson’s blog about House of Lords reform. It assumes that all opponents of … Continue reading
Gavin Phillipson: Lords Reform: why opponents of the Government Bill were wrong
So the attempt to bring long-overdue comprehensive reform to our second chamber has failed. The plan for an 80% elected, 20% appointed House, with the hereditary rump removed and Prime … Continue reading
Nick Barber: House of Lords Reform: A Look in the Long Grass.
The fall of the Coalition’s proposals for reform of the House of Lords has not come as much of a surprise. In terms of constitutional reform, the House of Lords … Continue reading
House of Lords Reform
The Government has published the House of Lords Reform Draft Bill. The proposals are still subject to consultation and parliamentary debate, but it seems that, at a minimum, the bulk … Continue reading
