“We have control over how we conduct ourselves and how we work, but we have no control over the appointments system – and that’s what gives us the most criticism,” says LadyBasildon. “It’s rightly criticised... It needs a major overhaul” 🔎 Big Read
Perhaps what’s most damning of all is how the earls, baronesses, marquesses and viscounts themselves feel about it., Baroness of Basildon and leader of the opposition in the House of Lords, tellsBaroness Angela Smith says this month’s controversy about appointments to the House of Lords has been a ‘huge frustration’ for peers who aren’t to blame
She argues that the existing peers do not deserve to be blamed for the current controversy, as many of them are experienced people trying to do their jobs of checking bills proposed by the Commons. Instead, “it should be the prime minister who has made the appointments”. “We have control over how we conduct ourselves and how we work, but we have no control over the appointments system – and that’s what gives us the most criticism as an institution,” says Baroness Smith. “It’s rightly criticised. I’m hugely critical. It needs a major overhaul.”
She believes things have got so bad that peers now want stronger rules on who can be appointed more intently than many MPs, especially those in the. “This must be the first case in history where the House of Lords itself wants reform and it’s a government that’s blocking it.” Constitutional experts agree that the need for reform is looking increasingly urgent. Hannah White, director of the Institute for Government think-tank,: “Johnson’s final recasting of the House of Lords serves as the starkest of reminders why former prime ministers should no longer be allowed to appoint their friends, allies and benefactors to lifelong positions in the UK’s second legislative chamber.
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