Quote of the day: Effective absurdity

Politics 1 Minute

It is the lack of democratic legitimacy that lies at the heart of why the Lords is both so tainted and so unreformed. Absent any claim to a public mandate, peers can never be a fully functional element of the legislature and that means they can never be properly capable of checking the executive of the day. Governments like it that way so they keep it that way.

— Andrew Rawnsley

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