Why the House of Lords will be hard to abolish
Reform of the upper chamber is one of Keir Starmer’s most important tasks this parliament.
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Sunak’s honours list faces a Starmer peer review
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Gus O’Donnell: The insider’s guide to preparing for power
The former head of the civil service on the cost of Brexit, the case for electoral reform, and Keir Starmer’s…
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Scottish nationalism finds a new home in the House of Lairds
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How to reform the House of Lords
Also this week: finding peace in weekly Mass, and what Winston Churchill knew.
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The Conservative ship is going down – save yourselves!
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Labour minister gets an apology over “no money” note – 13 years late
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How Labour can be radical for free
Starmer should embrace comprehensive reform of the voting system, the House of Lords and party funding.
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The tug of war over Boris Johnson’s honours list is also a contest for favour from the Tory press
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list will be the final insult
The likes of Paul Dacre, Nadine Dorries and the wife of a former Putin minister are set to be rewarded…
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Westminster is broken
Ian Dunt’s new book reveals Britain as a country of inept civil servants, deluded ministers, blinkered journalists and unscrutinised power.
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“Lord Dacre”? Does Richard Sharp know something we don’t?
The BBC’s under-fire chairman may have inadvertently suggested a peerage for the Daily Mail editor is back on the cards.
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Can we stop the government criminalising protest? With Jodie Beck of Liberty
The Public Order Bill is a worrying assault on basic freedoms.
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Did the Speaker overstep when he criticised Labour’s plans to abolish the House of Lords?
Lindsay Hoyle has raised eyebrows by commenting on a party political issue.
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Tory MP Stuart Andrew finds himself an unlikely hero of the left
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There’s plenty of ways to reform the House of Lords. Just look at Europe
To listen to the British elite you’d think the only choices were the UK’s semi-medieval aberration or US Senate-style deadlock.
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Growth through devolution will be Labour’s election pitch
The question is whether wrapping green policy, levelling up and regional power into one is comprehensible.
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Labour’s constitutional radicalism is what a broken system needs
Too much of our political class has become timid or borderline corrupt. It’s time to redistribute power and abolish the…
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Can the House of Lords survive Boris Johnson?
The former PM’s resignation honours will hand titles – and a lifelong presence in the legislature – to more of…
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Nadine Dorries could be barred from House of Lords over “brutal” select committee report
MPs appear set to condemn the former culture secretary for misleading them by claiming participants in a Channel 4 reality…
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