Leader of the house claims map to dilute powers of the House of Lords actually makes it stronger. Prince Charles would approveNot flailing but Grayling. The leader of the house must be sick of the sight of the green benches,as nearly every time he comes to the Commons he ends up embarrassing himself. His statement on Lord Strathclyde’s report into changes to the House of Lords was worse than normal, as it was an embarrassment piled on to a previous embarrassment. Having tried and failed to sneak cuts to working tax credits through parliament on secondary legislation after the bill was blocked by the Lords, and Chris Grayling was now faced with trying to persuade an understandably sceptical chamber that making it impossible for the Lords to block any further secondary legislation was a complete coincidence.
Amnesia is normally one of Grayling’s stronger suits – largely because there is a genuine possibility he might actually suffer from severe memory loss – but even he was struggling. It had just advance to his notice,he plodded, that the Lords was an unelected upper chamber which had no business making life difficult for a democratic lower chamber.
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Source: theguardian.com