http://electhelords.org.uk/articlearchive.php Recent Press Articles from Elect The Lords en-GB Elect The Lords http://electhelords.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2008 Elect The Lords 2008-08-20T16:24+01:00 United Kingdom http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000253/jack_straw_dont_make_the_best_the_enemy_of_the_good.html MPs will vote on Lords reform on Wednesday. This is an opportunity to take a step forward on a subject upon which all three parties want to make progress. 2007-03-02T14:42+00:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000252/want_to_be_a_labour_peer_1m_should_swing_it.html A peerage costs an average of £1 million in donations or loans to the Labour Party, but a contribution of just £50,000 brings a 50-50 chance of receiving an honour, according to a study published today. 2006-07-21T12:45+01:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000251/straw_sets_route_to_lords_reform.html Reform of the House of Lords will depend on cross-party agreement on limiting its powers, Jack Straw, leader of the Commons, indicated yesterday. Mr Straw, who has been put in charge of the long-delayed completion of Lords reform, said he wanted a limit on the time for which the second chamber could hold up legislation while it debated amendments - possibly as little as 60 days. 2006-06-14T12:09+01:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000250/straw_wants_lords_reform_sorted.html Reform of the House of Lords needs to be tackled "once and for all" or risk being forgotten for five or 10 years, Commons Leader Jack Straw has said. 2006-06-09T12:15+01:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000249/blair_turns_to_cunningham_in_drive_to_curb_lords_powers.html Tony Blair will on Monday move to curb the powers of the House of Lords to wreck his government's legislation programme after a series of bitter clashes between the Commons and the unelected house over terrorism laws, ID cards and hunting. 2006-05-23T11:08+01:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000248/cabinet_push_for_60_per_cent_elected_house_of_lords.html Plans for about 60 per cent of peers to be elected by the public are being drawn up by the Cabinet in an attempt to find a consensus on reform of the House of Lords. 2006-05-23T11:05+01:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000247/government_contempt_over_rushed_lords_reforms.html The Government was tonight accused of behaving in a "contemptible" manner and seeking to rush through moves towards Lords reform. 2006-04-26T00:10+01:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000246/cabinet_split_over_elected_lords_as_old_guard_rebels.html Tony Blair is facing a rebellion by senior cabinet ministers against plans for most members of the House of Lords to be directly elected by the public. 2006-04-25T15:40+01:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000245/why_we_still_love_all_those_lords_aleaping.html There is the one who used to gallivant about town with a parakeet on his shoulder; the one who, instead of flowers as her dinner-table centrepiece, had a live sow and piglets in a glass case; the one who keeps wild animals on his estate; and the one who keeps a clutch of 'wifelets' on his. When you see what Britain's aristocrats get up to, you wonder why big businessmen who should know better would wish to pay outrageous sums to get a title. 2006-04-24T17:48+01:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000244/blair_nears_deal_on_elected_lords.html TONY BLAIR is poised to do a deal on reform of the House of Lords as part of a legislative programme next year intended to form his legacy and to give a further sign of his determination not to make an early exit from Downing Street. 2006-04-24T17:41+01:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000243/great_reform_planned_for_lords.html The government is set to introduce a "great reforming bill" on the House of Lords, a cabinet minister has said. 2006-04-24T13:25+01:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000242/peer_pressure_the_house_of_lords_opens_today.html Today mySociety launches a pair of complementary services sprinkling some of our democratic pixie dust on the House of Lords: 2006-04-19T15:20+01:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000241/i_have_lot_to_offer_in_lords__failed_candidate.html A FAILED Labour election candidate who lost the party's safest seat defended her appointment today as a working life peer. 2006-04-11T15:22+01:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000240/anger_as_labour_lord_advocate_is_made_a_cross_bench_life_peer.html A MAJOR row has broken out over the appointment of Labour's Lord Advocate Colin Boyd as a life peer on the cross benches of the House of Lords. 2006-04-11T15:20+01:00 http://electhelords.org.uk/articles/000239/leader_lords_in_danger.html But following his established pattern of reaching for legislation without thinking through the consequences, he has now decided that an elected Lords might be a good idea after all. 2006-04-11T15:14+01:00