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Wouldn’t PR make the second chamber more legitimate than the Commons?

April 26, 2017chamber Commons PR

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Wouldn’t PR make the second chamber more legitimate than the Commons?

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By proposing that membership should be broadly representative of the parties’ relative voting strength at the previous general election (see White Paper, The House of Lords: Completing The Reform (Cm 5291) Nov. 2001), the government accepts that proportionality alone cannot confer primacy.