Election Of Hereditary Peers

EDM number 1432 in 2015-16, proposed by David Hanson on 27/04/2016.
Categorised under the topics of By-elections, House of Lords and Members of the Lords.

That this House notes last week's by-election in the House of Lords, which saw Viscount Thurso elected to the other place following the sad death of Lord Avebury; further notes the size of the electorate was only three; calls into question the legitimacy of this by-election; believes now is the time for the abolition of the remaining 92 hereditary peers' right to vote and speak in the House of Lords; and agrees to bring forward the second stage of reform following the House of Lords Reform Act 1999.

This motion has been signed by a total of 21 MPs.