A bill to remove the remaining 92 hereditary legislators for life will be introduced in the next session of parliament, according to a report in the Telegraph newspaper. The bill would also establish a commission to appoint new legislators-for-life.
Ten Conservative Party legislators would lose their seats if the bill was passed. Among them would be the so-called Lord Strathclyde who leads his party?s unelected legislators. The Conservative leader is now calling for an elected second chamber although he is not believed to have supported democratisation before reform of the House of Lords began.