The government’s approach to reforming the House of Lords is 80 per cent of the way there. Nick Clegg needs to take courage and to go the rest of the way to a more democratic and coherent, wholly elected Senate.

Dunleavy, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-2650-6398 (2011) The government’s approach to reforming the House of Lords is 80 per cent of the way there. Nick Clegg needs to take courage and to go the rest of the way to a more democratic and coherent, wholly elected Senate. British Politics and Policy at LSE (30 Jun 2011). Website.

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After more than a century of constitutional reform debates, replacing the indefensible House of Lords with a decent elected Senate is now within sight. The government’s draft Bill is a vast improvement on previous Westminster-elite proposals. It needs only some achievable alterations to become a wholly desirable plan for reform. The key changes needed, Patrick Dunleavy writes, are fewer Senators, able to stand for two terms each, using a simple, open List system of proportional representation, and sitting in an all-elected House.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2011 the author
Divisions:	Government Public Policy Group
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited:	04 Jul 2011 12:32
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 18:14
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/37231

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