{"id":42732,"date":"2025-04-23T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/42732\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:58:10","slug":"britains-hereditary-lords-hatch-a-survival-plan-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/42732\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s hereditary lords hatch a survival plan \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One said the atmosphere in the Lords is now \u201cvery divided and quite heated,\u201d and the prospect of \u201cconverting\u201d some peers \u201cwould take a lot of heat out of the future of the hereditaries\u2019 bill, not to mention the rest of the passage of legislation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Conservative peers argue that some of their hereditaries, including Shadow Deputy Leader in the Lords Frederick Curzon and former Lords Leader Thomas Galbraith, are well-liked and allowing their return would boost support for the bill.<\/p>\n<p>While the government firmly denies any such talks are taking place, the same Tory peer maintained it was \u201cinconceivable\u201d that such talks would not have involved either whips or Smith\u2019s office, either directly or through back channels. However, they stressed any talks would be \u201clight touch,\u201d at an early stage and informal.<\/p>\n<p>One senior Labour figure, granted anonymity like others in this piece to speak freely, said the government had previously suggested the Conservatives should use a set of six peerages <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/political-peerages-december-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">created in December last year<\/a> to ennoble some hereditary members, but they declined to do so.<\/p>\n<p>A second Labour figure in the Lords said some Conservatives are now \u201cvery, very keen\u201d on conversion. \u201cThere\u2019s definitely been the idea that the Conservatives could use their opportunities\u201d to put hereditaries in some life peerage slots that were coming up for grabs anyway, they added.<\/p>\n<p>Bumpy ride<\/p>\n<p>After sailing through the House of Commons last year, the bill is facing a bumpier journey through the Lords.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One said the atmosphere in the Lords is now \u201cvery divided and quite heated,\u201d and the prospect of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[23916,748,33,35,393,4884,807,809,1144,5111,46,2343,48,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-42732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-angela-smith","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-energy","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-negotiations","18":"tag-northern-ireland","19":"tag-parliament","20":"tag-policy","21":"tag-research","22":"tag-rights","23":"tag-scotland","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114385040434492091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}