Member

That is why this Bill was introduced within the first 100 days of this Labour Government. We were elected on a clear manifesto commitment: to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the other place—a principle that is both simple and long overdue, as we have heard from my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Chris Vince). In the 21st century, we should have no places in our legislature reserved for those who are born into certain families. It is an outdated and indefensible feature of our constitution, and last year the British people gave us the mandate to change it.