Let’s Rethink The Lords: The Accidental Conscience Up to now, we’ve been circling something without quite naming it. We’ve seen that the House of Lords wasn’t designed to be the nation’s ethical conscience. It evolved into a revising chamber — a brake — a place where legislation is slowed down and stress-tested. And yet, again and again, ethical arguments end up happening there. Not because anyone formally decided that ethics should live in the Lords, but because when ethical questions don’t have an obvious home, they tend to drift to the place that feels least constrained by electoral pressure.

The Lords wasn’t designed to be the nation’s ethical conscience.
So why does it keep acting like one?
This is where the strain starts to show.
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