Dark days for Lords

AS peers vote for the 15th time to keep Britain shackled to the EU, these are dark days indeed in the history of the Lords.

Don’t take the Mail’s word for it. This was the excoriating verdict of former Commons deputy speaker Lord Framlingham, who accused peers of showing themselves at their ‘disreputable’ worst in their attempts to thwart the people’s vote for Brexit.

Coming after the House sought for the second time to overturn MPs’ refusal to open another Leveson Inquiry, this marvellous speech was a timely reminder of how far peers have overstepped themselves. The Mail repeats: the Lords, which is cutting its throat as an institution, cannot survive in its present form.