A small clique in Downing Street gets to determine who sits in the Lords. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that gives rise to a fundamental unfairness and means that there is no correlation between the number of votes cast and the composition of the Chamber? For example, it is possible for a party to get 4 million votes in an election, but have zero appointed peers. Is that fundamentally unfair?
House of Lords Reform
Proceeding contribution from
Douglas Carswell
(UK Independence Party)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 14 January 2016.
It occurred during Backbench debate on House of Lords Reform.
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