See below for the latest news and comment on House of Lords reform:
- 06 January 2012
- Why have a House of Lords if there's not a single lord left in it?
- Charles Moore, Telegraph
- 05 September 2011
- Opposing coalition's constitutional reforms
- Conor Burns explains why he disagrees with an elected House of Lords
- 16 June 2011
- House of Lords Library Note summarising the Government's plans and response to them
- Ian Cruse and Dorothy Leys
- 5 June 2011
- Lord Steel attacks Nick Clegg's reform of the House of Lords
- Daniel Boffey, Guardian
- 4 June 2011
- Should we have an elected House of Lords? Lord Steel takes on Baroness Kennedy
- Comment is free, Guardian
- 2 June 2011
- Nick Clegg's House of Lords reform is folly
- Comment is free, Guardian
- May 2011
- Towards an effective House of Lords
- Andrew Taggart and Samuel Emery, Bow Group pamphlet
- 19 May 2011
- A more 'democratic' Lords can only damage the Commons
- Andreas Whittam Smith, Independent
- 17 May 2011
- Don't lay waste to the wisdom of the Lords
- Peter Hennessy, Telegraph
- 01 February 2011
- House of Lords reform?
- Lord Norton, Glasgow University Stevenson Lecture
- 01 January 2011
- Lord Norton on 2011 and the Coalition's plans for the Lords
- nortonview.wordpress.com
- 02 October 2010
- Chris Mullin on Lords reform
- Decline & Fall, 2010
- 16 June 2010
- House of Lords is no anachronism
- Brian Rix, Guardian
- 10 June 2010
- Clamour for an elected Lords is about grabbing power
- Simon Jenkins, Guardian
- 15 January 2009
- Response to White Paper: "An Elected Second Chamber"
- House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee
- 28 October 2008
- Why we need the House of Lords
- David Seymour, Total Politics
- 15 October 2008
- Enter, stage Left, a new fan of the Lords
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Evening Standard
- 15 July 2008
- White Paper savaged on Lords Of The Blog
- Lordsoftheblog.net
- 14 July 2008
- Government statement on Lords Reform White Paper
- Parliament.uk
- 14 July 2008
- An Elected Second Chamber - The White Paper
- Ministry of Justice
- 07 November 2007
- New House of Lords Bill introduced
- Parliament.uk
- 20 July 2007
- 2nd Reading of the House of Lords Bill
- Hansard
- 19 July 2007
- Survey shows peers ready for limited Lords reform
- The Constitution Unit
- 15 June 2007
- Brown will put reform of the Lords on back burner
- Peter Riddell, Times
- 16 March 2007
- House of Lords Bill explanatory notes published
- Parliament.uk
- 16 March 2007
- House of Lords Bill published
- Parliament.uk
- 15 March 2007
- Lord Steel to introduce House of Lords Bill
- Press release
- 14 March 2007
- Lords back fully appointed upper house
- Guardian
- 14 March 2007
- Full breakdown of the Lords votes
- 13 March 2007
- Lord Norton speaks in Lords reform debate
- 11 March 2007
- Lending "legitimacy" to their lordships will ruin them
- Michael Portillo, Sunday Times
- 9 March 2007
- The demons no longer exist - maybe before we reform the House of Lords we should make more of an effort to understand it in its current form
- Meg Russell, Guardian
- 8 March 2007
- Meritocracy v. Democracy
- Bruce Ackerman, London Review of Books
- 5 February 2007
- Campaign for an Effective Second Chamber issues a Statement of Principle
- Campaign for an Effective Second Chamber
- 5 February 2007
- Don't destroy the Lords - An elected upper house would cause huge divisions. Its members should all be appointed
- Lord Steel, Guardian
- 1 February 2007
- Cabinet fails to agree coherent proposals on Lords reform
- BBC
- 8 May 2006
- The House of conundrums
- William Rees-Mogg, Times
- 21 April 2006
- Elected Lords would in no way improve the performance of the house
- Geoffrey Howe, Times
- 11 April 2006
- Lords in danger
- Telegraph editorial
- 7 April 2006
- Beware the word ‘reform’
- Brian Walden, BBC
- 2 April 2006
- A deal on the Lords that rival parties could hardly reject
- Peter Riddell, Times
- 27 March 2006
- If you thought this was a rotten way to pay for politics, you’ve seen nothing
- William Rees-Mogg, Times