{"id":25503,"date":"2011-04-07T01:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T01:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times-elected_peers_to_serve_for_15_years\/"},"modified":"2011-04-07T01:45:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T01:45:34","slug":"london_times-elected_peers_to_serve_for_15_years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25503","title":{"rendered":"(London) Times&#8211;Elected peers to serve for 15 years in smaller House of 300 Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elected members of a reformed House of Lords would serve single terms of 15 years under plans to be announced by the Deputy Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty peers would still be appointed to a slimmed-down chamber of 300 after Nick Clegg was forced to accept a compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a fully elected chamber that was promised in the Liberal Democrat manifesto in the event that party took sole power, Nick Clegg will soon present plans for one that is 80 per cent elected and 20 per cent appointed. He has also bowed to pressure from the Church of England and reserved places for some Anglican Bishops, although many fewer than the 26 who sit on the red benches now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/politics\/article2971581.ece\">Read it all (subscription required)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elected members of a reformed House of Lords would serve single terms of 15 years under plans to be announced by the Deputy Prime Minister. Sixty peers would still be appointed to a slimmed-down chamber of 300 after Nick Clegg<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25503\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,74,389,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}