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were both determined to shake up the system, and in such times the old House of Lords began to look more and more outdated.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?
Peter Raina
House of Lords Reform: A History [EPUB ebook]
Volume 4. 1971-2014: The Exclusion of Hereditary Peers – Book 1: 1971-2001 – Book 2: 2002-2014
House of Lords Reform: A History [EPUB ebook]
Volume 4. 1971-2014: The Exclusion of Hereditary Peers – Book 1: 1971-2001 – Book 2: 2002-2014
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9783035397062 ● 出版者 Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften ● 发布时间 2015 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 5776395 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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