Andrew Taggart & Samuel Emery, with a foreword by Lord Norton

The House of Lords has often been subject to considerable criticism on a number of different grounds, and the sheer amount written on the subject of House of Lords reform illustrates that our upper house sits uneasily in our constitutional framework of a modern, democratic society. But despite the theoretical imperfections of the House of Lords, it is rarely criticised for what it does or the way it does it. Too little of the debate on House of Lords reform over the past decade or so has appreciated this simple and important fact.