A quarter of a million voices are calling for House of Lords reformWe have hit a significant milestone in our campaign to reform the House of Lords: over a quarter of a million people have now signed our petition calling for the second chamber of our Parliament...Posted 26 Jun 2025
ERS in the Press – Coverage we’ve secured in the GE campaignYou might have noticed that there’s a general election approaching. Whilst the date of the election may have taken us all a little by surprise, the ERS communications team were ready to go and making...Posted 25 Jun 2024
Why an elected second chamber won’t lead to gridlockLooking across the Atlantic at America’s Senate, it’s clear why concerns are often expressed that an elected second chamber may challenge the primacy of the House of Commons and at the extreme end, result in...Posted 19 Feb 2024
A Labour Peer is trying to abolish hereditary peers (again)There is overwhelming support for reform but Friday once again showed there is little chance of it succeeding. On Friday 3rd December, for the fourth time in just five years, Labour peer Lord Bruce Grocott...Posted 07 Dec 2021
Lords call for decisive action to slim down the ever-expanding second chamberBuried amidst last week’s fall-out from the Queen’s Speech and the elections was the fourth report of the Lord Speaker’s Committee on the Size of the House. The committee, established in 2016 by Lord Fowler,...Posted 21 May 2021
Hereditary peer by-elections have been paused. They should be scrapped entirelyThe House of Lords just keeps getting bigger. Following the PM’s appointment of 36 new unelected peers, each week sees more introduced to a chamber that is bursting at the seams. The Lords themselves have...Posted 18 Sep 2020
Revealed: The true cost of Britain’s silent peersThere are many perks to being a member of the House of Lords. While many peers do work hard, it seems one of the perks is being able to claim expenses for doing very little....Posted 17 Aug 2020
The unelected House of Lords is undermining Britain’s reputationBritain's ability to speak up for democracy abroad has just taken a major self-inflicted hit.Posted 06 Aug 2020
The already super-sized House of Lords is about to get biggerPlans to appoint dozens of new unelected Lords make a mockery of claims that the chamber is slimming down. Posted 27 Jul 2020
Unelected aristocrats are still trying to call the shots in Parliament. It’s time for changeThis week the ballots dropped for the world’s most elitist election. A contest to select a new hereditary Crossbench peer to sit in the House of Lords. You’d be forgiven for thinking that elections for...Posted 12 Mar 2019