House of Lords Reform: A History: Volume 4. 1971–2014: The Exclusion of Hereditary Peers – Book 1: 1971–2001 – Book 2: 2002–2014 - Hardcover

Raina, Peter

9783034318563: House of Lords Reform: A History: Volume 4. 1971–2014: The Exclusion of Hereditary Peers – Book 1: 1971–2001 – Book 2: 2002–2014

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3034318561 ISBN 13: 9783034318563

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2015

Peter Raina's magnificent history of Lords reform has already brought into the public domain a mass of original documents and thrown light on the debates they fuelled. In Volume 4 he brings his study up to the present age. The Thatcher and Blair governments were both determined to shake up the system, and in such times the old House of Lords began to look more and more outdated. Mrs Thatcher's inaction on the issue only increased calls for abolition or change. So the Blair government grasped the nettle. In one historic Act of Parliament it ejected hereditary peers from the House - except for 92 saved by a last-minute amendment. The negotiations and reactions surrounding this event are recorded here in lively detail. This concluding book brings Peter Raina's History of Lords' Reform up to the end of 2014. It follows on from the banishment of hereditary peers from the House in the name of democracy. This was proclaimed as only the start of more sweeping change. What was to happen next?

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Review:

�Peter Raina's books on the House of Lords provide the most comprehensive and authoritative history of the evolution of a central institution in the British Parliamentary system. It is an indispensable study.� (Professor the Lord Plant of Highfield)

�Volume 4 is an extraordinary work of scholarship� (Rt Hon. the Lord Lloyd of Berwick, former Lord Justice of Appeal and Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales)

�My congratulations on your achievement� (Rt Hon. the Baroness Hayman, former Lords Speaker)

�I am delighted to have such detailed volumes about the time when I was involved in the politics of reform� (Rt Hon the Baroness Jay of Paddington, former Leader of the House and Lord Privy Seal)

About the Author:

Peter Raina has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is presently Senior Research Associate at the Graduate Centre of Balliol College, Oxford.

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