‘Procedural shenanigans’ as peers debate their own reform

‘Procedural shenanigans’ as peers debate their own reform

The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill is being debated again this week in the House of Lords. This bill, as the name suggests, seeks to remove the last 92 hereditary Lords from the second chamber, something we have long campaigned for at the ERS.   Nobody should inherit the right to vote on our laws or speak in our parliament.  Whilst most of the hereditary peers were removed in the 1999 reforms (Tony Blair’s first government removed over 6…