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Off with their heads…

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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...but keep the body.

Well that seems to be the message in relation to the House of Lords by the former judge Thomas Bingham in the Jan Grodecki lecture.

In short, Bingham argues that a way out of the constitutional impasse is to change the powers of the Lords so that it acts merely as a revising rather than reforming chamber.

The idea has some merit, I think.  But perhaps only as a short term measure until Parliament can come to some sort of agreement about how to get the thing elected.  A sort of Stage 2 as it were.

Read more about Lord Bingham’s plans here.

Here is a Guardian editorial supporting an elected body.


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