Certain governments in the United Kingdom have, for more than a century, attempted to find a way to
reform of the House of Lords, the
upper house of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom. This process was started by the
Parliament Act 1911 introduced by the then Liberal Government which stated:
...whereas it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation