Member

If we are democratically elected Lords senators, why should the Prime Minister come from the Commons? It is only 60 years ago that Sir Alec Douglas-Home—Lord Home of the Hirsel—was Prime Minister. In the United States, 17 Presidents have come from the Senate and 19 from Congress—not that I am holding up the United States as a fine example of democracy in action at the moment. The Conservatives and Labour may make a party rule that the leader can come from only the MPs, but they would soon ditch that if polling suggested that some charismatic young Turk from this place was an election winner.