However there’s a greater scandal with the Home of Lords, one which has been neglected and which can persist even when Mr. Johnson’s appointments all become ethically aboveboard. The present appointments course of, even when it’s not being abused, produces a homogeneous and unrepresentative Home of Lords. For greater than a century, measures have been taken to reform the Lords — to make it much less elitist and extra democratic in spirit, much less privileged and extra meritocratic. They seem to…
