Turnout for the UK election 2024

60% according to Yougov and Statista.

Haven't found anywhere suggesting higher.

So a majority and a mandate but only just.

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SW-User

The problem rests in the House of Lords. Here the conservative dinosaurs have the majority. The hereditary peers correctly should be abolished, but there are only a few of them. And as for the woke Church of England bishops, what are they doing there?

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User The modern idea of an upper house is that it should be able to hold the government of the day to account for it's proposed changes to laws.

If you remove the voting rights from hereditary peers the question then becomes do you still allow Prime Ministers the right to send their choices of peers to the Lords or do you do away with their voting rights too ?

And if you do, what do you replace them with ?
There's been a lot of discussion about an elected second chamber.
So in this scenario who gets to stand ?
Who gets to elect ?
What would be the expectation with regard to their voting ?

SW-User

@Picklebobble2 Let’s see what these Tory peers do to block Starmer’s legislation. To be fair having Patrick Valance there with John Timpson, can only enrich the organisation. As will Penny Mordant, Michael Gove, and the unfortunate Jonathan Ashworth.