House of Lords Reform - a timeline
1909 - The House of Lords causes a national outrage by blocking the government’s ‘People’s Budget.’
1911 - Parliament Act: Asserted the supremacy of the House of Commons by limiting the legislation-blocking powers of the House of Lords.
1949 - Parliament Act: Further limited the power of the Lords by reducing the time that they could delay bills, from two years to one.
1945-1951 - Salisbury Convention: Established the principle that the House of Lords will not oppose the second or third reading of any government legislation promised in its election manifesto.
1958 - Life peerages Act: Increased the ability of the Prime Minister to change the composition of the House of Lords and considerably lessened the dominance of hereditary ‘part-time’ peers.
1963 - Peerage Act: Allowed the disclaiming of peerages, and permitted female and Scottish hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords.
1999 - House of Lords Act: Removed right of hereditary peers to sit in House of Lords, however, 92 hereditary peers were kept.
2007 -The House of Commons vote overwhelmingly in support of either a 100% or 80% elected House of Lords.
20?? - Success: With your help the UK has a fully elected second chamber!
"The Nineteenth century saw a great Springtime of Nations as the revolutions of 1848 saw new countries created the length and breadth of Europe. In our world today we are now seeing our own Spring Awakening with people and cultures that have long been dormant and subdued asserting their right to exist, their right to dream." Adam Price MP
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