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Leader: Lords in danger

Published in The Telegraph on Tue 11th Apr 2006

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.

There are many reasons why he is wrong, not the least of which is the likelihood that an elected upper house will create an additional, utterly superfluous class of political placemen - not so very different in character from Mr Blair's appointments to date.

An elected second chamber that would in effect fall under the control of the whips in the Commons would also lose all purpose as a revising chamber.

Having made a mess of getting his preferred candidates into ermine, Mr Blair is in danger of stumbling into an even greater mess.

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