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As Labour try to reform the Lords, the tip of the peer present remains to be a great distance off

By Editorial Board Published October 15, 2024 5 Min Read
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As Labour try to reform the Lords, the tip of the peer present remains to be a great distance off

We have been right here earlier than. Because the Nineteen Sixties, Labour governments have tried to legislate for the tip of the peer present. But nonetheless their lordships survive.

The newest transfer to reform parliament’s Higher Home got here as MPs debated the Home of Lords (Hereditary Friends) Invoice, aimed toward kicking out the 92 friends who inherited their seat.

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Good luck, as they are saying, with that. Sure, Sir Keir Starmer has a whopping Commons majority. However so did Tony Blair, however his makes an attempt to reform the Lords have been doomed to fail and led to farce and disarray.

This second studying debate started with Paymaster Common Nick Thomas-Symonds quoting Harold Wilson – of whom he wrote an acclaimed biography – proposing Lords reform in 1968.

Mr Thomas-Symonds did not point out the fiasco of 2003, when MPs voted to reject all 5 choices – or was it six? – for reform proposed by Robin Prepare dinner, together with complete abolition, 100% elected, 80% elected and 60% elected.

So now we have now one more bid to take away hereditary friends. However that is all. Labour’s manifesto pledge to pressure friends to retire at 80 has mysteriously – however sensibly, critics would declare – been shelved.

That is hardly shocking. On the very second the 80-and-out proposal was unveiled, Sir Keir Starmer was elevating grand dames Margaret Becket, 81, and Margaret Hodge, 80, to the Lords.

Additionally getting their marching orders from the Labour benches within the Lords would have been nationwide treasures Joan Bakewell, 91, Alf Dubs, additionally 91, and Robert Winston. Surprising ageism!

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Invoice launched to take away the correct of hereditary friends to sit down within the Home of Lords

‘What concerning the King?’

Mr Thomas-Symonds is a brainy kind. However throughout his speech he instantly bumped into hassle from among the previous lags on the opposition benches as he tried to elucidate the federal government’s reasoning.

What concerning the king, requested Sir John Hayes. He is hereditary, in any case. What about Catholic bishops, queried Sir Edward Leigh. Why not abolish the Lords altogether, demanded the SNP’s Pete Wishart.

From the opposition entrance bench, the previous deputy prime minister, Sir Oliver Dowden, delivered a witty speech which he admitted was his “swansong”, as he would not count on to be within the new Tory chief’s shadow cupboard.

Disgrace! There’s one thing of the pantomime dame about “Olive”, as his Tory associates name him. The Tory entrance bench will likely be much less vibrant and witty with out him, as he demonstrated on this speech.

“The Labour Party,” Sir Oliver declared, smirking, “reeks of the hereditary principle. The elevation of the Nepo babies of north London, the coronation of the red princes…

“The Falconers, the Kinnocks, the Benns, the Eagles, the Reeves, lots of them distinguished members, however beneath Labour’s closed store, it is hereditary friends out, hereditary MPs in.”

After the good-humoured banter of the Commons second studying, Mr Thomas-Symonds’ invoice will certainly face numerous amendments because it continues by way of its phases within the Commons and the Lords.

Sir Oliver claimed the invoice had already been criticised by Labour grandees, David Blunkett, Peter Mandelson and Andrew Adonis. May they trigger hassle for the federal government within the Lords?

This second studying debate confirmed what we already knew, because of Robin Prepare dinner’s humiliation in 2003, that there is no consensus in parliament on Home of Lords reform and possibly by no means will likely be.

And that is why the tip of the peer present is nearly definitely nonetheless a great distance off.

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