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The constitutional change in the House of Lords
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In the general election in 1997, the Labour party made commitments in relation to several areas such as constitutional, law and order, welfare, education and health, environment and economy. Among these, a major part of Labour's election manifesto was the constitutional change in the House of Lords. The Labour party manifesto states that "The House of Lords must be reformed. As an initial, self-contained reform, not dependent on further reform in the future, the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords will be ended by statute. This will be the first stage in a process of reform to make the House of Lords more democratic and representative." A political scientist, John Kingdom had opined that the House of Lords as "one of the most curious of the curious anomalies in British public life, defying all logic of democratic and secular politics." The constitutional reform pressure group,...
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