Member

I think it is worth thinking in this debate, and in all those that follow, about whom we might lose under the proposal for slimming down the House. If we remove those who will have served 15 years or more by the end of this Parliament in July 2029, to assume a five-year term, we would lose 129 Labour Peers, 121 Conservative Peers and 120 Cross-Bench Peers—interestingly, a broadly comparable figure on those three Benches—along with 59 Liberal Democrat Peers and 23 non-affiliated Peers. We would also lose the Leader and Deputy Leader of your Lordships’ House, perhaps before they have even been able to move on to the second and third stages of reforms of your Lordships’ House that they set out in their manifesto. I am sure we would all be disappointed not to see them finish that job by the end of this Parliament.