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Hybrid democracy for Lords?
Hybrid democracy for Lords?
Last Modified: 07 Feb 2007
By:
Gary Gibbon
New proposals for Lords reform envisage a smaller chamber of elected and non-elected members.
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Democracy may be on its way to the House of Lords - or at least part of it.
The government has announced how it plans to complete reform of the Lords - unfinished business from Tony Blair's first term of government.
Leader of the house Jack Straw has put forward plans for a smaller, hybrid chamber, made up of both appointed and elected members who would no longer be known as peers.
But it's still far from clear whether parliament will be able to agree on the way forward.
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