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House of Lords Archive
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Illegitimate comments
Posted on 08/02/2007 | No CommentsJack Straw has published at last his proposals on reform of the House of Lords. (You can read about them here). The reform debate has been going on a long time: who knows if it will come to an end this time. Labour came to... -
Review of 2005
Posted on 02/01/2006 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming 2005 will be remembered as a bad year for federalism. There have been bad years before and there no doubt will be bad years again, so there is no reason to despair. It is simply necessary to be realistic. Perhaps we should... -
Connect political power to votes cast
Posted on 23/03/2004 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 23 March 2004 The United Kingdom is caught up in not one but twoconstitutional debates at the moment, and there is an interesting link between the two ofthem. The first, on the European constitution, is followed closely by readers of EUobserver.com;... -
Billy Bragg is wrong about the House of Lords
Posted on 04/03/2004 | No CommentsWell-known singer and campaigner Billy Bragg has launched his own campaign for reform of the House of Lords, proposing it should be elected at the same time as the House of Commons. The novelty of the scheme is that it proposes using the same votes... -
Reform of the House of Lords
Posted on 28/01/2002 | No CommentsThe following submission was made to the Lord Chancellor’s Department in response to the government’s White Paper on reform of the House of Lords. 1. Federalism divides political power between levels of government to achieve the best combination of democracy and effectiveness. It is not...
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