These appointment should be a turning point for reform
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Dear Friend,

The government has finally published Liz Truss's resignation honours list, by publishing it at 10.30pm on a Friday night, in the hope that nobody would notice. It will feel like an insult to many to see Liz Truss handing out peerages to friends and supporters after her disastrously short stint as prime minister. 

This additional batch of peerages means that the former prime minister has sent a new person to the Lords for every 1.5 days she was in office.

They can try and sneak out the list, but Liz Truss's appointments have thrust the squalid process of Lords appointments into the foreground, and in a way unlikely to enhance the upper chamber’s reputation with the public.

Because of these appointments, the whole country can see how Westminster actually works. 

Will you add your name to share what you think about these honours?

We need to replace the bloated and unelected Lords with a smaller elected chamber where the people of this country, not former prime ministers, choose who sits in Parliament making the laws we all live under.

 

Best wishes,
Darren Hughes,
Chief Executive,
Electoral Reform Society

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