Baroness Boothroyd has warned that electing the House of Lords without clarifying what it is supposed to do could precipitate its “wanton destruction” – which some people might actually see as a good thing. Lord Adonis, meanwhile, has urged his ermine-clad colleagues to get their act together. He said that when he was Transport Secretary in the last Labour Government, he was never invited to give any evidence concerning his portfolio to peers. “A century and a half ago, Walter Bagehot said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords
was to come and look at it. I fear that this is still too often true today.”
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