The ability of legislators in the House of Lords to delay or bar legislation agreed by elected legislators may be restricted after the next general election, according to report in the Financial Times. Valerie Amos, Leader of the House of Lords, told the newspaper that the government had not decided whether the curbs should be voluntary or statutory.
Ms. Amos (known by the feudal title of Baroness Amos under Britain’s official system of class deference) justified the codification of the legislators’ powers by citing cases in which the current legislators-for-life had frustrated the decisions of elected legislators, and the government’s lack of a majority in the unelected house. However the restrictions would be introduced in tandem with legislation that would introduce indirection elections for seats in the second legislative chamber.