Life-time appointments to Lords should not be handed out as rewards for failure A seat in the House of Lords is a lifetime appointment to make our laws, not a gift to be handed out by a prime minister as they head out the door. Yet the prime... Posted 01 Nov 2022
Here’s how much the PM’s new unelected Lords could cost us The House of Lords was already bursting at the seams, but the latest batch of appointments from the Prime Minister has taken it past breaking point. Over 800 unelected lawmakers will be voting on decisions... Posted 04 Jan 2021
Lording it over us: Peers’ expenses free-for-all continues It’s a story we’ve heard too many times: unelected Lords cashing it in. This weekend, fresh revelations in the Sunday Times found that in the year to March 2019 peers claimed an average of £30,827... Posted 09 Mar 2020