In her article on parliamentary reform in this issue, Alexandra Kelso notes that the prospects for reform of the House of Lords before the next general election were all but ended by the withdrawal of the coalition government’s House of Lords Bill in 2012.
In the absence of agreement on the big questions on Lords reform — who should sit in a reformed chamber, and what role it should play — attention has shifted to less ambitious changes that might rectify some of the shortcomings of the Lords, improve its functioning and be easier to achieve. Many of these seek to address the growth in the size of the House of Lords.
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