Reforming the Lords and Changing Britain

Pressure for constitutional change in Britain has ebbed and flowed across the last hundred years. It is only since the late 1980s that the agenda has crept in a serious way from the Celtic fringes of Wales, Ireland and Scotland to become a preoccupation in Westminster. Changing political institutions in Britain's unitary, monarchical state is so difficult and controversial because if you change a little, you change everything.