What on earth is the Conservative Party's policy on the House of Lords? No one seems to know. Yet here, in light of Labour's unclear plans for a second chamber, is an unmissable opportunity for Tory mischief-making.

Baroness Jay, interviewed in the NS last week, boldly condemned peers as useless and the House of Lords as anachronistic but, when asked about her alternative to the hopeless hereditaries, she mumbled, she [...]