The Speaker of the House of Lords has urged the prime minister to cap the size of the upper house and bring an end to resignation honours.
Peers in 2017 recommended the Lords be capped at 600 to make it smaller than the Houe of Commons.
But it has continued to balloon, with the latest report suggesting there are 824 members, making it one of the largest scrutiny chambers in the world—second only to communist China’s rubberstamp National People’s Congress.
Writing in The Telegraph on Monday, Lord McFall said he would be meeting Rishi Sunak in days to urge him to accept the recommendations of a new report by a cross-party committee of senior peers….