Lords’ prayer

Published on 10/08/2012 00:00

APART from a few politicians at Westminster, no-one wants 450 elected senators in a new upper house elected for 15 years.

I am amazed the Liberal Democrats don’t see this. Lib Dems were doing themselves no favours by asking for more senators than people wanted. They were wrecking any chances of reform of the Lords in the process.

At one time Lib Dem policy was to reduce the number of members of parliament. How can you square that with 450 new elected senators? Surely 100 elected senators would have been enough?

Please let us have a proposal for a sensible fully-elected second chamber of the right size with more frequent elections than 15 years apart. The scheme as proposed did not enjoy enough support to be passed.

Nigel Boddy

Fife Road

Darlington