House of Lords: Report is sell-out to the ruling class, say Lib Dems

The Independent - London;  January 21, 2000 ;   Colin Brown Chief Political Correspondent;   282 words ......critics who want a directly elected upper chamber. The widespread criticism...said the proposal for an elected element of 20 to 40 per cent...backbench campaigner for an elected upper chamber, said: "It is unicameralism...

'Lords should not be a rival of the Commons'.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  March 9, 2007 ;     762 words ......MPs in favour of a 100% elected upper chamber, Mr Straw said he was serious...delighted MPs had voted for an elected upper chamber, and dismissed the idea...are certain to reject an elected upper chamber.: Laughter in the Lords...

What next after the House of Lords is areformed by PM?(Politics)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  September 29, 2003 ;     583 words ......proposals, the notion of an elected upper chamber is given a disdainful brush-o...the Commons could find the upper chamber more than an occasional irritant...fact that no members of the upper chamber enjoy a popular mandate. The...

Letter: Choosing the Lords

The Independent - London;  January 22, 2000 ;   Ian Mathews;   44 words ...Sir: Can one assume that the Royal Commission's opinion that an elected Upper Chamber "could not be broadly representative of the complex strands of British society" also means that they view an elected Lower Chamber as similarly unrepresentative ? IAN MATHEWS St Albans Hertfordshire

UNTIL this week, former Labour deputy ; The Londoner's Diary

Evening Standard - London;  February 22, 2008 ;     55 words ......Lords, had voted only twice in three years both on the same day in March last year in support of creating a fully elected upper chamber. But yesterday he went through the division lobbies four times to support the Bill to take Northern Rock into...

Lords defy MPs' vote for reform of upper chamber

The Scotsman;  March 15, 2007 ;   GERRI PEEV POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT;   169 words ......elected House of Lords. Defying last week's surprise Commons vote, in which MPs came out in favour of a fully elected upper chamber by a majority of 113, the House of Lords threw out all attempts to "modernise" the legislature. Instead, it backed...

End of the peers soon.(News)

The People (London, England);  January 17, 1999 ;     86 words ......Margaret Jay will set in train the appointment of 50 Labour life peers and a Royal Commission to consider an elected upper chamber. At present the Prime Minister recommends names to the Queen. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said yesterday: There...

Peers reject MPs' vote for elected Lords

The Scotsman;  March 15, 2007 ;   NO BYLINE;   114 words ......House of Lords. Defying last week's surprise Commons vote, in which MPs opted by a majority of 113 for a fully elected upper chamber, the House of Lords threw out all attempts to "modernise" the legislature. Instead, it backed the status quo...

In the Tory tradition.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  January 15, 2002 ;     156 words ...GOOD NEWS for Iain Duncan Smith. The radical shift in Tory policy to support an 80 per cent elected Upper Chamber has been commended by Conservative historian Lord Blake as a realistic and tactically acute move reminiscent of Disraeli's wrong-footi...

Major News Items in Leading British Newspapers

Xinhua English Newswire;  June 21, 1998 ;     157 words ......decided to abandon their support for hereditary peers. Instead, they propose replacing the House of Lords with an elected upper chamber which could be renamed the Senate. The Sunday Telegraph: French authorities have been accused of ignoring advice...

Senators? You must be joking After a two-day debate, the House of Lords...

Evening Standard - London;  March 31, 1999 ;   George Walden;   787 words ......repositories of superior wisdom, and the very idea that the upper chamber was in need of reform was greeted with the mantra: "If it...nominated by the government of the day. So why not an indirectly elected Upper House with independent-minded people who will put their lifetime...

MPs vote for an end to House of Lords

Yorkshire Post;  March 8, 2007 ;     709 words ......with a completely elected upper chamber. The idea of appointed...night that a fully-elected upper chamber would mean much greater...and 100 per cent elected, and will for the...representatives to the upper chamber. There are still...

upper chamber

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      10 words ...up·per cham·ber • n. another term for upper house .

Thirsk: Upper Chamber to go for quick encore.(Sports)

The Racing Post (London, England);  August 5, 2001 ;     95 words ......FitzGerald is planning to strike while the iron is hot with Upper Chamber, who breezed home by three lengths in the lady riders' selling...five-year-old failed to arouse any interest at the auction. Upper Chamber, gaining his third success from 30 starts, was given a good...

British government proposes curb on debate of proposed laws in Britain's...

AP Worldstream;  June 13, 2006 ;   DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press Writer;   468 words ......government policy in the unelected upper chamber of Parliament could be imposed under...Act, which allows it to overrule the upper chamber, to pass a ban on hunting foxes with...Unless a solution to reform of the upper chamber is found within the next year, he said...