Jon Snow
Parliament is falling down: what goes on inside needs repair too
The flummery, obscurity, ya-booing, and the rest, for all its theatrical entertainment, suggest a state living in the Dark Ages.
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Will immigration determine the election and Sunak’s future?
In the Political Fourcast, Lord Jo Johnson and MP Margaret Hodge join Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Gary Gibbon to discuss planes and plots as Rishi Sunak tries to get asylum-seeker flights in the air.
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5m
Government suffers second Lords Brexit defeat
The Government suffers a second defeat on its Brexit Bill in the Lords – with a majority of nearly 100 peers backing a move to provide a “meaningful” vote on the final deal once the negotiations are over.
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Brexit debate: Baroness Dianne Hayter and Lord Daniel Finkelstein
Baroness Dianne Hayter who is the Labour spokesperson for Brexit and the Conservative peer, Daniel Finkelstein join Jon Snow from the Palace of Westminster.
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Jon Snow
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Is it time to reform the Lords?
As the Government reels from a stinging defeat on tax credits in the House of Lords, there are calls for reform.
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Jon Snow
New peers: time for a constitutional commission
Bloated and undemocratic, the current House of Lords is a nonsense. It’s time for a re-think.
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Jon Snow
The unmentionable House of Lords: key to a federal Britain?
Constitutional reform proposals are flooding out of No. 10 (without much consultation it seems) in the wake of the Scottish referendum. So is now the time for much needed House of Lords reform?
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Jackie Long
Assisted dying – a right or ‘murder by physician’?
There has been no fury and no barracking – but in the House of Lords ferocity belies what is being said. The debate? The right to die.
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Gary Gibbon
Gay marriage vaults over first hurdle in the House of Lords
The House of Lords rejects a bid to block plans to legalise gay marriage with a thumping majority. The battle could be over sooner than might have been thought.
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Gary Gibbon
Tories give Lords a signal to create trouble over gay marriage
The fact that some 139 Tories voted against gay marriage is a giant signal to the Lords to create trouble when the bill gets there.
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Michael Crick
Cameron promises to cram yet more peers into the Lords
As David Cameron reveals plans to announce a number of new peers before the summer in line with the coalition agreement, Michael Crick looks at how bloated the House of Lords could become.
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Gary Gibbon
‘Nothing will change my mind’. Really, Mr Clegg?
With a cabinet reshuffle on the cards and calls from within the party to quit, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg faces tough decisions. Gary Gibbon reports on how he fared in front of colleagues
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Michael Crick
Death of Lords Reform: defeat or ‘breach of contract’?
Relations within the coalition grew significantly worse today, with Conservative sources in Whitehall admitting defeat on the coalition’s plans for Lords reform.
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Michael Crick
UK commissioner want outside QC to question bankers
“There are very few barristers and QCs in the Commons with the experience of mounting a detailed and probing line of interrogation.”
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Michael Crick
Lib Dems ditch elections to Lords
‘The Liberal Democrats have long had a quirky system where every couple of years members at their annual conference elect a panel of names for the party’s future peerages.’