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Honours System (Reform)

The report, which is an extremely good one, does retain some nomination rights for Government to the honours commission. Might not the danger be that that would suggest that the system was still about repaying favours and being partisan? If we are to include anybody with a political handle, would it not be better for those processes to be dealt with in a much more pluralistic way, through a Select Committee and Parliament as a whole, rather than through the Government of the day? Is not one of the main complaints that the system is overly party politicised? Is that not what we want to get away from most of all?