Archive: Mark Harper

Clegg: Recall of MPs is just a backstop

MPs won't be recalled for political purposes, Clegg insists

Plans to give voters the ability to recall MPs are not being introduced to give politics an "aggressive tool", Nick Clegg has told MPs.

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Dizzying Lords reform debate won't end prettily

Round and round in circles...

Round and round in circles they went. Eventually the Lords reform debate will get so giddy with dizziness it will fall off the coalition's merry-go-round for good.

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politics.co.uk podcast: The perils of Lords reform

Time to reform the House of Lords?

The coalition's plans for an elected second chamber are well underway - but can they be turned into reality?

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Interview: Mark Harper's Lords reform challenge

Mark Harper, the Conservative minister for political and constitutional reform, is tasked with achieving the hardest reform of them all

It is, perhaps, the hardest reform of them all. Can Mark Harper succeed where so many before him have failed?

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Tory grumblers told to fall in line over Lords reform

Minister ready to use Parliament Act to push through Lords reform

Lords reform was in manifesto, Mark Harper points out

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