THE LAST REMAINING hereditary peers are to be thrown out of Parliament. Good, you might say. What place does heredity have in our legislative process? Britain is finally moving into the modern era, you might add. Reforming the House of Lords has been a low-level objective of all three parties of government over the last 20 years, finally Keir Starmer is getting on and doing it.
Well before you start burning your breeches, I think someone should make a defence of the House of
