Labour enters the 2015 election pledged to make creating a British Senate a key part of a new Constitutional Convention. The SNP surge in Scotland gives much greater urgency to the idea, since a new upper House could be one of the most important components for re-binding together a fully federal UK. Richard Reid and Patrick Dunleavy read the runes on a century-old area of constitutional controversy, which just might get resolved soon
The House of Lords is the world’s longest-established and probably best-known second chamber. Wholly...
UKIP’s rise has caught the establishment by surprise, with the main parties doing all they can to pr...
After the rapid implementation of phase one of House of Lords reform, plans for further change, or p...
House of Lords reform was scuppered in 2011 when the Conservatives opted not to back the Liberal Dem...
A 1,800 word blog post on Lords Reform inc the prospects of a constitutional convention, a proposed ...
After more than a century of constitutional reform debates, replacing the indefensible House of Lord...
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The government’s proposals to reform the House of Lords are only the latest in a long line of initia...
Abstract The 1911 Parliament Act decreed that Lords reform was ‘an urgent question which brooks no d...
The details of the government’s new proposals for House of Lords reform are certain to generate much...
The government’s Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill was devised with no consultatio...
In the long age of abortive Lords reforms, Theresa May has installed a new chapter by backing off fr...
After more than 10 years in Office, New Labour has still not completed ‘stage two’ of House of Lords...
We should welcome the government’s reforms to overhaul the House of Lords, writes Graham Allen MP, t...
The House of Lords is the world’s longest-established and probably best-known second chamber. Wholly...
UKIP’s rise has caught the establishment by surprise, with the main parties doing all they can to pr...
After the rapid implementation of phase one of House of Lords reform, plans for further change, or p...
House of Lords reform was scuppered in 2011 when the Conservatives opted not to back the Liberal Dem...
A 1,800 word blog post on Lords Reform inc the prospects of a constitutional convention, a proposed ...
After more than a century of constitutional reform debates, replacing the indefensible House of Lord...
As part of the 2017 Audit of UK Democracy, Sonali Campion, Sean Kippin and the DA team examine how t...
Sonali Campion, Sean Kippin and the Democratic Audit team examine how the UK’s deeply controversial ...
The government’s proposals to reform the House of Lords are only the latest in a long line of initia...
Abstract The 1911 Parliament Act decreed that Lords reform was ‘an urgent question which brooks no d...
The details of the government’s new proposals for House of Lords reform are certain to generate much...
The government’s Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill was devised with no consultatio...
In the long age of abortive Lords reforms, Theresa May has installed a new chapter by backing off fr...
After more than 10 years in Office, New Labour has still not completed ‘stage two’ of House of Lords...
We should welcome the government’s reforms to overhaul the House of Lords, writes Graham Allen MP, t...
The House of Lords is the world’s longest-established and probably best-known second chamber. Wholly...
UKIP’s rise has caught the establishment by surprise, with the main parties doing all they can to pr...
After the rapid implementation of phase one of House of Lords reform, plans for further change, or p...