As I mentioned when blogging Ming Campbell’s speech from Liberal Democrat conference, the motion in favour of Lords reform was passed overwhelmingly. That in itself was not a surprise, but that does not mean actually securing Lords reform will be easy. Two immediate ways you can support the campaign for House of Lords reform are:

Aside from the debate at Liberal Democrat conference on Lords reform, there’s another important opportunity to have your say on Lords reform at the moment. The official public consultation from the Joint Committee of the Draft House of Lords Reform Bill runs until 12 October and Unlock Democracy have put together a very simple to

Iain Dale’s timely blog post about the need for Bishops sitting in the House of Lords to avoid party politics has got me thinking. Am I alone in noticing that the issue of House of Lords reform has almost completely...

Whilst the News of the World scandal has drawn virtually all of the attention, the clock has started ticking on the work of the Joint Select Committee on the Draft House of Lords Reform Bill. Comprising twenty six members appointed from both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, it is charged with

The House of Commons returns on Monday to the thorny issue of House of Lords reform. As every attempt over the past 30 years has ended in failure, surely now is the time to begin a new approach that sees the Lords not as a rival to the Commons, but as the body representing the different interests of the nation?

In March, the House of Commons voted in favour of reforming the House of Lords making it either wholly or 80% elected. In March too, Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced the a draft bill to reform the Lords would be published within weeks. Only one problem. The first March was in 2007 and the second 2010. Three

The House of Lords has rejected government legislation which would keep people's fingerprints and DNA on a national database.

I am democrat and I instinctively support elections for the House of Lords, on the basic principle that those who legislate for us ought to be directly accountable to us, the voters. However, the speech of Baroness Betty Boothroyd has awoken a deep fear in me about these reforms. Currently the big criticism is that appointments to the House of Lords is down to patronage of the Prime Minister and P...

I quite like this recipe for a reformed House of Lords from Carl Gardner, the Head of Legal, posted at Freelance Intellectual, his "other" blog: My own recipe for Lords reform would be to have a chamber of 100 members elected by proportional representation under a list system, simply reflecting votes in the last general election. I'd retain the rule that members of the House were barred from ...

Lords reform. Cameron might not be able to offer PR for the Commons, but he could for the Lords. A proper Lords reform package is well within reach for both Lib Dems and Tories. Might that work?