Hello and welcome back to a two-part redbox special podcast on the most exciting part of the British Constitution.

Yes, it's the whole thing works.

In the previous episode we heard about the different types of peers on what they do.

In this episode we're going to talk a bit more about how Brexit has turned fresh attention on the House of Lords and where

they go from here. Even though Brexit hasn't happened yet, Parliament has already passed some of the biggest pieces of legislation in preparation.

Most notably, the bill which enabled the government to trigger

R. School 50 and the EU withdrawal will, which transposed a lot of EU law into British law ahead of our departure.

Both of those bills were the subject of long intense debates in both houses and I should know because I sat through most of them.

And in the Lords they faced significant and repeated defeats.

It led to the Daini Mail publishing headlines, branding the Lords,

the unelected House of Wreckers and the Express dared

them to ignore the will of the people at your peril. It reopened the perennial debate about what the House of Lords is for and how it is made up.

The argument surfaced again that the entire institution is out of date, not fit for purpose,

and in need of a complete rethink.

So was this criticism of the Lords as unrepresentative or fundamentally opposed

to Brexit, actually justified? Here's Lord Tyler, a senior lived in Pere. Well I think in this sense

yes because I think early on after the referendum people of all parties,

people from government side,

as well as from the opposition side,

and the independent cross-benches,

not party people at all.

So, quite early on, that this was a great deal more complicated than anybody

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