Member

I remember being in the office that I now occupy when it was occupied by the Marquess of Salisbury, then Lord Cranborne. The late and fondly remembered Labour Leader of the Lords, Lord Richard, whom many of us remember with great affection, knocked on the door, came in and said, “Robert, it’s about time we talked about reform”. He proposed a two-thirds elected, one-third appointed House. Lord Richard had thought that was what had been promised by his party in the manifesto, underlined by briefing from No. 10 that they were going for a reformed and partially elected House. Instead, not long afterwards, he was summarily and rather brutally sacked.