The Government will begin the process of removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords on Thursday, as it introduces legislation to reform the upper chamber. Nick Thomas-Symonds, minister for the constitution, said the legislation was a “landmark reform to our constitution”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well today we took the first step towards reforming the House of Lords by
00:07introducing the bill that will remove the link between hereditary peerage and
00:14the rights to participate and vote in the House of Lords and I want to send a
00:20signal to whether it's people in my constituency of Torfaen or across the
00:25country that if you want to play a part in making our laws in scrutinizing our
00:32laws it doesn't have to be because of an accident of birth and I think that's
00:37very important. 92 are going to be removed from the House of Lords that's
00:44the purpose of this legislation across the course of the Parliament we are very
00:49concerned with the issue of size there is also a need for the government to
00:55get its business through we have a very strong mandate from the public to do
00:59that the public expects us to deliver on the priorities that we were elected on
01:04and that means getting our business not only through the House of Commons but the
01:07House of Lords as well.