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White Paper and Draft Bill

Lord Norton 19/05/2011 – 3:11 pm

The Govermment's White Paper and House of Lords Reform Draft Bill got a poor reception in both Houses.  The media have been underwhelmed by the Government's proposals and decided that they did not really merit being treated as headline news.  This is hardly surprising given that the White Paper really added little to what had been covered in previous White Papers on the subject and left a great […]

Written at 3:11 pm on 19/05/2011, by Lord Norton

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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Lord Knight 26/11/2010 – 6:09 pm

The biggest moment of the week for me in the Lords this week was the Schools White Paper statement.  On these occasions it falls on the Lords minister to read out verbatim the words of the Commons minister.  So the likeable Lord Hill read out the words of Michael Gove.  They didn’t sound right coming from the mouth of such a decent consensual minister as Jonathan Hill. For a start there wa […]

Written at 6:09 pm on 26/11/2010, by Lord Knight


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Call that a White Paper?

Lord Norton 15/07/2008 – 9:50 am

The White Paper on Lords reform appears to have been received with indifference, buried away on the inside pages of the broadsheets and treated as a second-order item by BBC News Online.  Even ministers apparently had lost interest before it had even been published.  It is not difficult to see why. As I anticipated, it makes no intellectual case for electing the second chamber and bandies abou […]

Written at 9:50 am on 15/07/2008, by Lord Norton


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Lords reform White Paper

Lord Norton 13/07/2008 – 6:22 pm

The Government White Paper on Lords reform is expected to be published tomorrow (Monday).   I and others will have the opportunity to comment further once it is published, but here are a few questions to bear in mind when you see the details: To what extent does the White Paper actually provide an intellectually coherent case for change as opposed simply to accepting a declaratory vote in […]

Written at 6:22 pm on 13/07/2008, by Lord Norton


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Lords reform

Lord Norton 07/07/2008 – 6:28 pm

The Sunday Times yesterday carried a leak as to one of the recommendations that will be appearing in the Government White Paper on Lords reform: provision for a recall election for elected members of the upper house. The proposal rather reflects the muddled thinking that has underpinned work on the White Paper.  The idea is to have elected members serve single long-terms of 10-15 years.  The r […]

Written at 6:28 pm on 07/07/2008, by Lord Norton


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