Peter Rainas magnificent history of Lords reform has already brought into the public domain a mass of original documents and thrown light on the debates they fuelled. In Volume 4 he brings his study up to the present age.
The Thatcher and Blair governments were both determined to shake up the system, and in such times the old House of Lords began to look more and more outdated. Mrs Thatchers inaction on the issue only increased calls for abolition or change. So the Blair government grasped the nettle. In one historic Act of Parliament it ejected hereditary peers from the House except for 92 saved by a last-minute amendment. The negotiations and reactions surrounding this event are recorded here in lively detail.
This concluding book brings Peter Rainas History of Lords Reform up to the end of 2014. It follows on from the banishment of hereditary peers from the House in the name of democracy. This was proclaimed as only the start of more sweeping change. What was to happen next?
Peter Rainas magnificent history of Lords reform has already brought into the public domain a mass of original documents and thrown light on the debates they fuelled. In Volume 4 he brings his study up to the present age.
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«Peter Raina's books on the House of Lords provide the most comprehensive and authoritative history of the evolution of a central institution in the British Parliamentary system. It is an indispensable study.» (Professor the Lord Plant of Highfield)
«Volume 4 is an extraordinary work of scholarship» (Rt Hon. the Lord Lloyd of Berwick, former Lord Justice of Appeal and Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales)
«My congratulations on your achievement» (Rt Hon. the Baroness Hayman, former Lords Speaker)
«I am delighted to have such detailed volumes about the time when I was involved in the politics of reform» (Rt Hon the Baroness Jay of Paddington, former Leader of the House and Lord Privy Seal)
Contents: Book 1:
197176. Reforms Suggested
197779. Lords Reform:
Earl Homes Review Committee
1979. Mrs Thatchers Reservations
198096. A
Multitude of Proposals
199597. Party and Public Discussion on Reform
1997. The Lords and the Labour Manifesto
1999. Exclusion of Hereditary
Peers: The Labour Government Bill
2000. A House for the Future: Royal
Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords
2001. Completing the Reform:
A New White Paper Book 2:
200203. The Joint Committee on House of Lords
Reform
2005. Constitutional Reform: The Lord Speaker
2005. Voices From
Outside and From Across the Parties
2006. Conventions of the British
Parliament
2007. A New White Paper on Reform: Jack Straw
2008. An Elected
Second Chamber: The Cross-Party Group
2011. A Draft Reform Bill
2012. The
Coalition Governments House of Lords Reform Bill
2012. The House of Lords
Reform Bill: Its Fate in the House of Commons
2014. Dan Byles House of
Lords Reform Act 2014 and Two By-Elections
2014. A Bill Empowering the
House of Lords to Expel or Suspend Members: Baroness Hayman.
Peter Raina has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is presently Senior Research Associate at the Graduate Centre of Balliol College, Oxford.
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