Amendment summary
It was moved by the Baroness Williams of Crosby, as an amendment to the Motion for an Humble Address, at the end of the Address to insert “but regret the decision of Your Majesty’s Government to propose changes to the House of Lords which repudiate their previous commitment to create a more democratic and more representative House; and call on Your Majesty’s Government to introduce legislation which, while ending hereditary membership of the House, will ensure a majority of Members of the House are democratically elected.”; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and