Some members of the House of Lords have been demanding the right to vote for MPs and want to see the law changed to remove the ban on peers voting at general elections.
Do you agree with them? That’s the question asked in our latest Twitter poll:
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Yes but when we can vote for them.
I cannot imagine how it could possibly matter in any practical sense, there just aren’t that many peers. On the general principle that arbitrarily disenfranchising people is a bad idea, we should probably get rid of it.