An elegant investigation by the New Local Government Network has revealed that members of the appointed House of Lords are not evenly spread across the country. A disproportionate number live […]
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A new White Paper has been published on reform of the House of Lords, the latest in a long series of such publications since Labour won the election in 1997.
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Jack 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
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By 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
By 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
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Well-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
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The 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
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