Just 2% of peers have have a primary working background in medical and healthcare work - compared to around one in ten of the workforce.
Posted 06 Aug 2020
A petition to scrap and replace the unelected House of Lords with a PR-elected chamber has reached 350,000 signatures - doubling in just a few days.
Posted 04 Aug 2020
"You cannot claim to want to address the size of the Lords while at the same time packing it full of party loyalists, donors and ex-MPs."
Posted 03 Aug 2020
Electoral Reform Society calls for Lords to ‘get serious’ about reform following anger over 36 new appointments to bloated chamber.
Posted 03 Aug 2020
The Electoral Reform Society has slammed the House of Lords as a 'Westminster private member's club' as research by the Society revealed that nearly a quarter of peers are based in London.
Posted 03 Aug 2020
Based on the average claim of a peer, the 36 new peers are likely to cost around £1.1m a year in expenses from the taxpayer.
Posted 31 Jul 2020
A series of Freedom of Information requests has revealed that Government departments do not know who will be hardest hit by mandatory voter ID plans - despite ministers claiming that "the evidence shows there is...
Posted 30 Jul 2020
The Electoral Reform Society has warned that plans to appoint dozens of new Lords make a mockery of the chamber's supposed plans to slim down.
Posted 27 Jul 2020
The Electoral Reform Society has called for Parliament to draw up a clear, transparent framework to ensure proper scrutiny in the event of future crises.
Posted 16 Jul 2020
Moving the House of Lords to York is little more than virtue signalling if nothing is done to change its warped composition, says the Electoral Reform Society.
Posted 16 Jul 2020