NOTHING puts the ridiculousness of our broken political system into perspective like the absurd spectacle of the House of Lords.

With seats for life, they’re unelected, unaccountable and unrepresentative of ordinary working people. Its 800 members are able to claim £305 a day for just turning up and able to spend the day enjoying the perks of Parliament’s subsidised dining rooms. It often seems like more of a private members’ club than a legislative chamber — and that’s before we even get onto the robes.

At Politics for the Many we’ve been campaigning hard to sort out this outdated institution. We’ve been pressing the Labour Party to be unequivocal in its commitment to reform at the next election: scrap and replace the second chamber with one that truly represents the nations and regions of Britain — and represents people’s votes fairly too. A proportionally elected Senate that can speak up for the whole country.