Time to abolish the House of Lords. Again

Read Mick Hume's columns from The Times (London) this week.

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
Columnist

Topics Politics UK

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Tuesday 6 March:

As those old wartime posters asked: ‘What did you do in the Great Drought, daddy?’ Did you follow Ken Livingstone’s orders and let your loo go unflushed? Did you dutifully grass up any neighbours you spotted armed with a hosepipe? Well, pour yourself a celebratory glass from the tap, it’s all over now.

Read on…

Friday 9 March:

‘Strange that we are still arguing about who should sit in the House of Lords. After all, that moribund institution was abolished all of 350 years ago.’

Read on…

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