- Lord Richard
As some readers have noticed, The Times on Friday carried a report identifying some of the peers who are to be nominated to serve on the Joint Committee on the House of Lords Reform Draft Bill. It reported that I am among the four Conservative peers who are to be nominated. It also noted that one of the Labour peers, Lord Richard, is to be nominated to chair the committee. According to the piece, Lord Richard ‘has a record of voting against any elected element of the Upper House’. Really? That will be the same Lord Richard who is co-author of Unfinished Business, arguing for a largely elected second chamber and who, when the House voted on the several options in 2003 and 2007, voted for a largely or wholly elected House.
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May be Lord Richard changed his mind: the more old the more wise.
For, Journalists are researching precisely at every time (or do I need the joke-tool here?) Only German students are failing insofar as the former liberal Vice-President of the EP had shown.
michael: He may have changed his mind, but the article refers to his voting record and that is consistently in favour of an elected House.
What’s Lord Richard’s position on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s place in the Lords?
ladytizzy: We may soon be finding out!
Has the committee been formally appointed yet? If so who is sitting on it? If not when is this due to happen?
Joseph St.Clair-Ford: The members to serve on the Joint Committee have now been nominated (though formal approval by both Houses has not yet been given). I am about to do a post on the membership.