Rolling the Lords
REFORM of the antiquated House of Lords, with its ermine-clad hereditary peers, into something that might be recognised as part of a modern democracy is a cause close to the hearts of many Labour MPs, but is well down the government's priority list. Yet, for one part of Britain, not only reform but abolition of the peers' role in lawmaking may come a lot quicker.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Rolling the Lords”
From the July 19th 1997 edition
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