... House of Lords curbed somewhat. In 1999, the present Labour government began their much-heralded reform of the House of Lords with the removal of the rights of hereditary peers to an automatic seat in parliament, an aspect of the Lords often criticised by both the public and political analysts. Furthermore, they intend to reform the Lords structurally, with the proposition of a wholly or partly elected chamber at the forefront of these plans, set out in their 2001 White Paper, The House of Lords: Completing the Reform. In this essay, it will be necessary to analyse the different ways in which the House of Lords could be reformed and through this analysis conclude whether reformation would be an advantageous move by the government. Although there is a definite consensus that electoral reformation is the priority of the modification, there is a certain degree of dispute over which method to follow. ...

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