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by danielbarker on 14 November, 2024
| For decades, Liberal Democrats have led calls for reform of our broken political system. The need to fix our politics was only made more urgent by the previous Conservative Government. Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak treated public standards with disdain, which did immense damage to trust in politics. Following our historic General Election result, Liberal Democrat MPs are using our new role as the third largest party in the House of Commons to put political reform back on the agenda. One way to fix British politics is to deliver proper democratic reform of the House of Lords. It’s simply not right that, in 2024, part of our Parliament has no democratic mandate. But under the Conservatives, successive Prime Ministers had zero interest in reforming the Lords. Instead, they attempted to stuff the second chamber with their cronies, leaving the Lords as the largest second chamber anywhere in the world. Now, the new Labour Government are bringing forward some changes we support – like removing the hereditary peers. But they are not going far enough! That’s why on Tuesday in Parliament, Liberal Democrat MPs triggered a vote on Sarah Olney MP’s amendment: which would finally lead to democratic reform of the House of Lords. You can read about that amendment here: |
| ⏲️ Est. reading time: 2 mins |
| Sadly, the Labour Government voted against this amendment. You can watch and share my speech during the debate in the House of Commons here: |
| Liberal Democrats will continue to press the new Government on this and other urgent issues such as introducing fair votes via proportional representation. We are the only party that understands that our political system is broken, which has enabled politicians to take people for granted. And we will continue to use our historic strength in the House of Commons to fight for a fairer political system. |
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