that change allowed for life peers (people who are in untill they die and their children do not get the seat) and some (if not all?) are selected by the PM
this means the lords ends up with peers beholden to political parties when previously they were not
A war criminal speaking at that BBC.
and he fucked up the house of lords with his shitty reforms
He brought in Peerages, right?
among other things
that change allowed for life peers (people who are in untill they die and their children do not get the seat) and some (if not all?) are selected by the PM
this means the lords ends up with peers beholden to political parties when previously they were not
Well they did alienate them, look at them now.