FURTHER REFORM OF THE SECOND CHAMBER (No. 2)

That this House believes that the withdrawal of proposals to reform the hereditary peerage gives Parliament the opportunity to legislate more comprehensively on Second Chamber reform; believes that the House of Lords should be further reformed so that it becomes more democratic and representative, and yet is in no position to challenge the primacy of the Commons; believes that the political parties should make commitments in their manifestos to legislate in one or more Bills, firstly, to codify and define the powers of the Second Chamber, and secondly, to abolish hereditary peers and to bring forward proposals on composition including proposals for indirect election by secondary mandate by the regions and nations of the United Kingdom.