Member

I turn in my remaining time to Amendment 97, which asks that we consider the suitability of the name “the House of Lords” following the departure of the hereditary Peers. At the most basic level, having finally cleaned out all the hereditary Lords from this place, it seems odd to keep their name above the door. It seems perverse to remove the purportedly indefensible hereditary privilege from our constitutional democracy and then seek to maintain the trappings, nomenclature, iconography and privileges inherent in that discredited hereditary principle.