House of Lords spends forty hours debating themselves

House of Lords spends forty hours debating themselves

Last night at 10.20PM, the committee of the whole House of Lords on the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill was finally adjourned. There were five days of committee, close to 150 amendments put forward, and there has been close to forty hours of debate so far. We watched it all, so you don’t have to. All of this for a Bill only five sections long that fits onto two pages. To give it its full title, the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill 2…