As a part of a supposedly “radical vision” for Britain the Prime Minister has announced that he intends to ask Parliament to approve a change in the law that would stop the seats of Britain’s 92 hereditary legislators being taken by their children when they die.
However, even the introduction of a bill before the next general election to stop this feudal practice is not guaranteed. And the last attempt to reform the second chamber of parliament by allowing the people to elect at least some of the legislators was blocked by the very people whose feudal privileges it was intended to end – the legislators-for-life.