The House of Lords is ripe for reform.
On that much, all 26 members of the Joint Committee on Lords Reform, the three main political parties at Westminster and around two-thirds of members of the public are agreed. Opinion is so deeply divided over how it should be achieved, however, that a majority of the committee want a referendum to be held before any change goes ahead while 12 members issued an alternative report rejecting the Government's draft Bill and calling for a constitutional convention to consider Lords reform.
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