Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home with me, Alan Tolhurst.

This week, we're looking at whether Parliament could finally see some further modernisation of the way the Commons operates,

with a new committee led by Cabinet Minister Lucy Powell, setting out plans for meaningful reform in a host of areas,

after clamour from new

MPs to finally bring how Westminster works into the 21st century. To discuss all that, I'm delighted

to be joined by Labour's Rachel Blake, elected as the MP for the cities of London and Westminster

in last year's election, as well as Sophie Church, reporter-art assess to publication, The House

magazine. And later in the pod, we'll also hear from Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Olney, her party spokesperson for the Cabinet office, about what her party wants to see

from the modernisation committee's work. So Rachel, I'll start with you. This new committee

set up with, I say, with Lucy Powell, the leader of the Commons chairing it,

it says that it recognises that times have changed and the role of an MP has changed over time

and it want to kind of change the way that it conducts business to reflect that.

You know, what is it that you and other MPs perhaps want to see in terms of updating how the Commons operates?

The first thing to say is this is a really significant moment in terms of the scale of the

newness of the Parliament and the huge opportunity for different working practices to be

recognised. The second thing that's important to really notice is the diversity of this parliament is something that the prime

minister's talked about, something I'm sure you've covered as well, in terms of the most women

ever and a really significant opportunity to make sure that parliament is representative of the

population and representative of diverse

work experiences and also life, family experiences. The key things that I think that I'm not on

the modernisation committee, by the way, I am on the House of Commons Commission, which has

some responsibilities around House staff. But the key thing that I think

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