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House of Lords reform has been talked about for over a century, but the subject has been of most recent attention as, in 1999, Tony Blair’s New Labour Party introduced a reform for the Upper Chamber to make it more representative and democratic. But the government only conducted the first stage of this reform, consisting in a merely partial abolition of the hereditary peers. Since then, the composition of the House of Lords is only temporary while proposals for a second reform stage are being discussed for five years now.
The aim of this paper is to analyze on which basis the House of Lords should be reformed.
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- Saskia Mahlstede (Author), 2005, On which basis should the house of lords be reformed, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/72197
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