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MPs back all-elected Lords plan
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Mar 07, 2007 11:33pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | TV News - British Broadcasting Corporation BBC News |
| News Date | Thursday, March 8, 2007 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | MPs have voted to reform the House of Lords by demanding all members are elected, rather than appointed.
There was a majority of 113 in favour of this proposal.
MPs, allowed more than one choice, also voted by a majority of 38 for 80% of members of a reformed second chamber being elected and the rest appointed.
The decisions will not pass into law but are expected to inform government plans. Commons leader Jack Straw called the votes "a historic step forward".
Mr Straw told the BBC that MPs' decisions represented a "pretty seismic shift", saying : "The message was a very decisive and clear one in favour of reform of the existing House of Lords."
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell said: "This is a truly historic occasion. After nearly 100 years the House of Commons has at last taken the momentous step to reform the upper house and make it fit for a modern democracy." |
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