Keir Starmer's plans to abolish the House of Lords may well backfire 🔵 While some reform of the Lords is urgently needed, there’s a real risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater ✍️ paulwaugh for ipaperviews
As all previous attempts at reform have discovered, any move to an elected Upper House quickly runs into the problem of how to make it more legitimate without creating a powerful rival to the Commons. The United States is a case in point of how “checks and balances” often result in two elected chambers stuck in gridlock according to the electoral cycle.
The wider unease among some MPs and peers just demonstrates the sheer amount of “bandwidth” any such reforms would use up in a Starmer government. The upper house also needs to have its diversity improved and to cease being the patronage plaything of sitting prime ministers. Yet on each of these concerns – numbers, diversity, patronage – there are reforms that can be done short of outright abolition.aims to rectify some of these problems, putting on a statutory footing the often mysterious workings of the House of Lords Appointments Commission.
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