Liz Truss’s ‘rewards for failure’ resignation honours list shows just how unfit the peerages system is for deciding who sits in the House of Lords
Image: CC BY-SA 2.0, adapted from work by UKinUSA from Washington, D.C. & Annabel Moeller, copyright House of Lords 2016
The latest batch of peerages, sneaked out under the cover of the New Year's honours, means that the former prime minister has sent a new person to the Lords for every 1.5 days she was in office.
It will feel like an insult to many to see Liz Truss handing out peerages to friends and supporters after her disastrously short stint as prime minister. No prime minister should be able to appoint their friends to lord over us.
It’s time to scrap this rotten system and replace the unelected Lords with a smaller elected chamber where the people of this country, not former prime ministers, choose who shape the laws we all live under.
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