Sentences with phrase «hereditary upper house»

Its then leader, Hugh Gaitskell, objected to the legislation on the grounds that life peerages might enhance the prestige of the then predominantly hereditary upper house.

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Nowadays, however, the upper house wields far less power than the lower, and the hereditary members are slowly being phased out, replaced by Lords appointed by the Prime Minister or the House of Lords Appointments Commission, an independent house wields far less power than the lower, and the hereditary members are slowly being phased out, replaced by Lords appointed by the Prime Minister or the House of Lords Appointments Commission, an independent House of Lords Appointments Commission, an independent body.

The Conservatives became, for the first time in many years, the largest single party in the upper house, with 222 members taking the Tory whip including 49 hereditary peers.

Critics within the Lords say that a byelection for a hereditary position will strike some members of the public as baffling, especially at a time when the upper house is swamped with political appointments.

The issue's importance is underlined by the ongoing role, following the failure of Lords reform, of hereditary peers in parliament's upper House.

18 September 2003: Britain's first constitutional affairs secretary, and likely last lord chancellor, Lord Falconer, announces government plans to expel the remaining 92 hereditary peers from the upper house «when parliamentary time allows» and strip anyone who has ever committed a criminal offence, including Archer, of their peerages.

He did not, as had been expected, go on to become chief whip; and, in 1999, when rehe form of the Lords began, failed by only 15 votes to be included among the 92 hereditary peers elected to continue in the interim half - reformed upper house.

Speaking out against the bill the Earl of Caithness said axing hereditary peers would leave the Lords with an appointed system only and delay progress towards a democratically elected upper house.

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