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School pupils to debate the Lords

Lord Norton 04/12/2010 – 7:25 pm

Yesterday (Friday) the House met and debated reform of the House.  Next Friday, the chamber will also be used to debate the same subject - but this time the debaters will not be peers but pupils from a number of state schools.  There will be teams from four schools, each advancing the case for one of the four proposals for reform (retention of an appointed House, partially elected, wholly […]

Written at 7:25 pm on 04/12/2010, by Lord Norton


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Peers in Waiting

Baroness Murphy 08/10/2010 – 2:02 pm

As my fellow bloggers have said, returning to parliament felt different this time. The sheer numbers of new boys and girls, with more on the way, makes the place feel claustrophobically crowded at question time. I failed to arrive before prayers on tuesday and couldn't get a seat anywhere. Eventually I squeezed on the back row of the Opposition benches. But it isn't simply the sense of overcrowdin […]

Written at 2:02 pm on 08/10/2010, by Baroness Murphy


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Leaving the Lords permanently

Baroness Murphy 23/08/2010 – 2:10 pm

No, not me, well not yet… Lady Deech mentioned the rumours that are flying around in one of her blogs so I thought I’d keep you up to date about what’s happening. During a debate on reform of the House of Lords, on Tuesday 29 June, Lord Strathclyde announced he would be setting up a Leaders' Group to investigate the options for Members to permanently leave the House of Lords. A Leader’s G […]

Written at 2:10 pm on 23/08/2010, by Baroness Murphy


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To Refer or not?

Baroness D'Souza 01/06/2010 – 12:47 pm

The Blog has been strangely silent over the bank holiday week-end - does this suggest that most of you blog only at work or that you are all out and about pursuing hobbies? I mentioned the possibility of a referendum on an elected House of Lords at last week's meeting of Lord Norton's Reform Group. It was roundly turned down,  very courteously as is always the case in Lords dealings, but fir […]

Written at 12:47 pm on 01/06/2010, by Baroness D'Souza


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Politics is an odd business…

Baroness D'Souza 29/05/2010 – 3:47 pm

Everyone agrees that the House of Lords has far too many members, we are already stuffed to the gills. Yet we now have 56 additional peers and the rumour of more to come. How does a perfectly obvious fact get so easily discounted? As Peter Riddell points out in today's Times it cannot be a question of the Coalition Government needing to secure a majority - it already has one at a whopping 50.  […]

Written at 3:47 pm on 29/05/2010, by Baroness D'Souza


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