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House of Lords Reform Bill

There are all sorts of issues with exits from and entry to the House of Lords, which we should debate in the time we now have available for the Bill.

It is plain that the Lords as constituted is absurd and unsustainable. We should propose to the British people replacing it with a wholly elected second Chamber. Except during the interregnum, the House of Lords has existed for hundreds of years, but never once have the British people had a say on whether it should continue to exist. Let us therefore reshape the Bill and reshape the Lords, and ask the British people for their endorsement.