Did the Speaker overstep when he criticised Labour’s plans to abolish the House of Lords?
Lindsay Hoyle has raised eyebrows by commenting on a party political issue.
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Tory MP Stuart Andrew finds himself an unlikely hero of the left
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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There’s plenty of ways to reform the House of Lords. Just look at Europe
To listen to the British elite you’d think the only choices were the UK’s semi-medieval aberration or US Senate-style deadlock.
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Growth through devolution will be Labour’s election pitch
The question is whether wrapping green policy, levelling up and regional power into one is comprehensible.
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Labour’s constitutional radicalism is what a broken system needs
Too much of our political class has become timid or borderline corrupt. It’s time to redistribute power and abolish the…
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Can the House of Lords survive Boris Johnson?
The former PM’s resignation honours will hand titles – and a lifelong presence in the legislature – to more of…
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Nadine Dorries could be barred from House of Lords over “brutal” select committee report
MPs appear set to condemn the former culture secretary for misleading them by claiming participants in a Channel 4 reality…
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Letter of the week: The bloated Lords
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Why shouldn’t Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe get a seat in the House of Lords?
As a woman who has endured the kind of trauma most of us can barely imagine, she would bring a…
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The young paying for the old’s mistakes speaks volumes about the House of Lords
A new report, written by 12 peers with an average age of 71, suggests that the financial burden of the…
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If you want to clean up this sleazy parliament, start by listening to Billy Bragg
Reforming the House of Lords could be disarmingly simple.
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Peers reviewed: the failings of the House of Lords
Much good work is done in the Lords, but the upper chamber remains a symbol of our crumbling political system.
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Should we abolish the House of Lords, or reform it?
Liberal, Labour and Conservative governments have all sailed into the Bermuda Triangle of Lords reform, though few have completed the…
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