House of Lords Reform Bill

Debate between Baroness Beckett and Nick Clegg

Monday 9th July 2012 Commons Chamber

[Margaret Beckett (Derby South) (Lab)]

Will the Deputy Prime Minister cease also to say that the Labour party has supported reform of the House of Lords since 1910? What we supported in 1910 was abolition.

[The Deputy Prime Minister]

If the Labour party’s views have evolved over the past 100 years, which in this matter, if not in others, they may have, I hope none the less that the right hon. Lady will confirm that there was a clear manifesto commitment from the Labour party not only to support the principle of House of Lords reform, but to deliver it in practice.