The House of Lords approved the Digital Economy Bill last night, handing over the decision making process on several controversial clauses to the House of Commons.

The Digital Economy Bill has been passed following its third reading in the House of Commons, after two hours of debate.

Speaking at the Liberal Democrat spring conference this morning, Danny Alexander MP (Vice Chair of the Federal Policy Committee and chair of the party’s General Election Manifesto Group) said the party will seek to make further changes to the Digital Economy Bill when it comes to the Commons. The Bill, currently passing through the Lords, has

Yesterday we covered an open letter from 25+ Liberal Democrat prospective Parliamentary candidates (and see also this comment from ex-MP Richard Allan), expressing concerns over the line the party had taken in the House of Lords on a key part of the Digital Economy Bill. The party’s DCMS (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) team

MPs have been criticised for not showing up to the Digital Economy Bill debate during its second reading at the House of Commons yesterday.

The House of Commons voted last night to push through Labour’s latest bit of legislative authoritarianism, the Digital Economy Bill. The Lib Dems were united in opposing it, but Labour brooked no opposition, while the Tories supported it with vague words of change, later, maybe. The Bill was passed by 189 votes to 47. Alix Mortimer

Over at The Guardian’s Comment Is Free website, Lib Dem blogger James Graham argues that it was the UK’s broken Parliament – an antiquated Lords, a whipped Commons – which got us into the legislative mess of Labour’s Digital Economy Bill. The only way to fix it, says James, is to vote for a new

THE House of Commons and the House of Lords should be scrapped as part of a new written constitution for the UK, accord-ing to a leading constitutional lawyer.

The Digital Economy Bill has its second reading in the Commons amid calls for the government to rethink rushing it into law.

The Digital Economy Bill is coming. The Lords have wasted most of their time wrangling over just how much they should support big business with laws, and now there are only a few days left to debate one of the most regressive laws to come to the parliamentary table. This is what the Government wants, to pass it without contest through the "wash-up" before an election. We must stand up for our righ...