Preserve the House of Lords’ powers to hold the Commons to account

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Preserve the House of Lords’ powers to hold the Commons to account

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We call on the government not to curtail the House of Lords’ powers to reject, and to the send back to the Commons legislation which it considers ill-considered, draconian, or unjust; and moreover, to be able to do this as many times as it wishes.

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The House of Lords “should be free to scrutinise, to question and to hold the government to account” (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36294740).

Yet the government plans to limit the powers of the House of Lords, so that it can only once send legislation back to the Commons to “think again.”

Without the House of Lords’ intervention we would today have arbitrary detention for 90 days without charge (9 November 2005) and unfair tax credit cuts for millions of UK citizens (26 October 2015).

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