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Discuss the possible changes to the membership of the house of Lords Currently there is 713 members of the House of Lords, 92 which are hereditary Peers, 26 Bishops and Archbishops while party member numbers fluctuate and the cross benchers which have no party affiliation. There is no upper limit to the number of members becoming Lords. Each main British party has their own leader and front bench departmental speaker which help organize the business of the House, the current leader of the house is Prime minister Tony Blair. Also the House has a Lord chancellor speaker of the house, though he has no power to control procedures. The House has already performed a number of Reforms, to reduce the number of Hereditary peers. Before the 1958 Life Peerages Act there were 810 hereditary peers, which went down to 759 in the period leading up to the House of Lords Act,...

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