Category Archives: Lord Tyler

Watch us anywhere?

Lord Tyler 22/05/2012 – 3:41 pm

While looking at some online archived footage of the Lords, I noticed a message on the parliamentlive.tv site which stated that the authorities had, since 2009-10, been looking for ways in which they could feed the same video material to mobile devices. Curious as to what was taking so long, I put in a parliamentary question to our brand new Chairman of Committees, Lord Sewel.  I have reproduc […]

Written at 3:41 pm on 22/05/2012, by Lord Tyler

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Primacy of Parliament

Lord Tyler 14/05/2012 – 2:08 pm

Today, the “Debate on the Loyal Address” continues in both Houses.  The Lords is having a second day concentrating on constitutional issues, and that will doubtless mean yet more indignation in our House about the government’s proposals for Lords Reform. I have been struck, listening to in particular (but by no means exclusively) to Labour Peers, that the question of primacy of the Commo […]

Written at 2:08 pm on 14/05/2012, by Lord Tyler

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Listening and learning?

Lord Tyler 30/04/2012 – 1:44 pm

After 30 meetings of the Joint Committee scrutinising the Government’s House of Lords Reform draft bill - and long sessions of assertion and deliberation - I confess I have been somewhat exhausted.  However, I must record one extremely important – and positive – lesson.   Every one of the Joint Committees on which I have served, as an MP and latterly as a Peer, has been an eye-opener.  […]

Written at 1:44 pm on 30/04/2012, by Lord Tyler

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Party animals?

Lord Tyler 14/03/2012 – 4:52 pm

I am extremely grateful to Matthew Purvis, one of the extremely assiduous and analytically astute researchers in the House of Lords Library, who has confirmed with some statistics my suspicion that former MPs and councillors (nominees of their parties, all) are indeed disproportionately represented among the active membership (those who attend and vote) of the Lords. I am writing with regard to […]

Written at 4:52 pm on 14/03/2012, by Lord Tyler

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Parliamentary Memory Lane

Lord Tyler 12/03/2012 – 10:50 am

In March 1962 I organised a bus-load of somewhat shambolic students from Oxford to visit the hitherto unknown  ‘commuter belt’ town of Orpington.  A few of us returned again on Polling Day for what turned out to be a historic Byelection result. The victor of that politically seismic event was a young engineer, only recently involved in politics, named Eric Lubbock.  As MP he was enormous […]

Written at 10:50 am on 12/03/2012, by Lord Tyler

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