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Matthew Holehouse, our British political correspondent, explains why Britain’s weak upper house suits the executive
Set aside the wider politics of the scheme and the nature of the Rwandan regime, and focus for a moment on the House of Lords. Many had expected the Lords to pick the scheme to pieces. The Conservatives do not have a majority in Britain’s upper chamber. Many of the former diplomats and judges who sit there found a law declaring Rwanda a “safe” country—directly contrary to the finding of the Supreme Court last year—to be both legally absurd and a sinister form of executive overreach.
Yet the bill passed all the same, after “ping-ponging” between the Commons and Lords five times before peers accepted that the Commons could get its way. Conceding defeat, Lord Anderson said that governments usually sought to compromise with the Lords in these stages but that Mr Sunak’s had “refused pointedly”. It was time to “acknowledge the primacy of the elected House and to withdraw from the fray”.
Labour has talked about reform for years but it hasn’t fully answered what relationship a more democratically legitimate upper house would have with the Commons, or what that would mean for the party’s agenda for government. Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, appears to be cooling on plans for an elected chamber in his first term, to focus on the economy instead.
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