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edited October 2017 in General

imagepoliticalbetting.com » Blog Archive » BMG finds 63% now want an elected House of Lords – up 15 points on two years ago

Maybe its down to the Brexit-induced greater focus on constitutional affairs but support for overhauling the second chamber has soared over the past two years – from 48% backing partly- or fully-elected upper house in 2015, to 63% now, according to polling by BMG Research commissioned by the Electoral Reform Society.

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  • JPJ2JPJ2 Posts: 380
    The main reason nowadays why there is no elected second chamber is that the House of Commons does not want another body that can lay claim to electoral legitimacy.

    More and more of the public on the other hand object to an ever more numerous Lord's membership full of party political appointees.

    Thank goodness for the SNP who have refused any involvement until the Lords is at least partly elected-quite a contrast to the massed ranks of former Scottish Labour politicians who infest the place along with a plethora of defeated Scottish Tories.
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