Stages and muddles: the House of Lords Act 1999
Kelso, Alexandra (2011) Stages and muddles: the House of Lords Act 1999. [in special issue: A Century of Constitutional Reform] Parliamentary History, 30, (1), 101-113. (doi:10.1111/j.1750-0206.2010.00238.x).
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As one of the most significant pieces of constitutional legislation enacted in the last century, the House of Lords Act 1999 radically reformed the membership of the second chamber of the Westminster parliament by removing almost all the hereditary peers who sat there. The act formed a key part of the constitutional reform agenda of the Labour government elected in 1997, but despite its massive majority in the house of commons, eliminating the hereditary peerage proved far harder than might first have been imagined. This article seeks to explore the events surrounding that act, the political machinations and deals leading up to it, the course of the legislation through parliament, and the intricacies of the process involved in securing constitutional reform of this magnitude. It concludes by examining the consequences of the act for subsequent attempts at further second chamber reform during the rest of the Labour government's time in office.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0264-2824 (print) 1750-0206 (electronic) |
| Keywords: | conservative party, elected upper house, hereditary peers, house of lords bill, labour government, legislation, parliament, royal commission on reform of the house of lords, weatherill amendment |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Social Sciences > Politics and International Relations Faculty of Business and Law > Southampton Management School > Management Science |
| Item ID: | 152125 |
| Date Deposited: | 13 May 2010 14:36 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Apr 2012 16:23 |
| Contributors: | Kelso, Alexandra (Author) |
| Date: | February 2011 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/152125 |
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