House of Lords should be cut to 600, report suggests

Report recommends House of Lords be reduced by a quarter, with new peers limited to 15-year terms The House of Lords should be reduced in size by a quarter to no more than 600 members, with new peers limited to 15-year terms, a long-awaited report into the future of the upper chamber has recommended. The report by a committee set up in December last year by the Speaker of the Lords, Norman Fowler, said that to maintain confidence in the chamber it must for the first time be given a maximum size....