Government to remove ‘outdated’ hereditary peers from Lords
The Government will begin the process of removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords on Thursday, as it introduces legislation to reform the upper chamber. Nick Thomas-Symonds, minister for the constitution, said the legislation was a “landmark reform to our constitution”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well today we took the first step towards reforming the House of Lords by
00:07introducing the bill that will remove the link between hereditary peerage and
00:14the rights to participate and vote in the House of Lords and I want to send a
00:20signal to whether it's people in my constituency of Torfaen or across the
00:25country that if you want to play a part in making our laws in scrutinizing our
00:32laws it doesn't have to be because of an accident of birth and I think that's
00:37very important. 92 are going to be removed from the House of Lords that's
00:44the purpose of this legislation across the course of the Parliament we are very
00:49concerned with the issue of size there is also a need for the government to
00:55get its business through we have a very strong mandate from the public to do
00:59that the public expects us to deliver on the priorities that we were elected on
01:04and that means getting our business not only through the House of Commons but the
01:07House of Lords as well.