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?

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.

Let us begin with a startling observation: the House of Lords matters. Legislation is shovelled through the commons with timetable motions that ensure large sections of many bills are never scrutinised by MPs. Thank heavens for the Lords. Because there is no in-built government majority, the Lords have defeated the government on one amendment or another on more than 400 occasions since 1997. By co...

Letters From A Tory has been crunching the numbers, and discovered that those in the House of Lords have nearly as highly a developed penchant for living high on the hog (on our money) as their loathsome Commons counterparts. Of course, if we knew that every single member of the House of Lords was spending all their time doing their duty to Parliament and the United Kingdom by working extremely ha...

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 BBC reports: MPs have voted to allow members of the Youth Parliament to hold a meeting on the floor of the House of Commons. The move, resisted by several Conservative MPs, will see the chamber being used other than by members of the lower house for the first time. Opponents said the Commons would abandon its traditions

I am left wondering if someone is farting too much having read this written question,Mr. Burstow: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission what the House of Commons Commission's most recent assessment is of the efficiency of the ventilation systems in each building in the House of Commons part of the parliamentary estate.Too many subsidised baked beans?

It is astonishing that until yesterday Parliament had had no debate on the current economic crisis. The House of Commons has failed in its duty to be the country's debating chamber. Instead, yesterday, it fell to the House of Lords to take up the cudgels. Their Lordships had a six hour debate and I highly recommend it to you to read - HERE. The participants read like a list of Who Was Who in ...

Conservative MP Roger Gale turns on Labour MP John Mann, wanting to know why he was in Sheffield and not the House of Commons.

Hélène Mulholland: Tourists around Westminster were today privy to the bizarre sight of an entire evacuation of the House of Lords, the House of Commons, and Portcullis House