A PLAID Cymru peer is to become the youngest ever to be introduced to the House of Lords as the party continues to push for more members in the…
A PLAID Cymru peer is to become the youngest ever to be introduced to the House of Lords as the party continues to push for more members in the UK’s upper chamber.
He highlighted how Plaid Cymru have a mechanism whereby people nominate themselves within the party to be Lords and then the party has a vote and this template could be followed in Scotland.Many Plaid activists oppose the Lords on the grounds that it is undemocratic, but the party’s official line now is to engage with it on the grounds that the legislation it passes has an impact on Wales.
She added that her generation’s voice is “drowned out by the failures of the UK's political and economic structures” and hoped to give a voice to young people. “Across Wales, young voices are drowned out by the failures of the UK's political and economic structures. They deserve to be heard. He added he had first concluded that Yes figures should take peerages “in 1998 when the Scotland Bill passed from theThe SNP do not nominate people for seats in the Lords, and party leader Humza Yousaf reiterated calls in DecemberWhy are you making commenting on The National only available to subscribers?
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