alt Hacker News> Which manifesto commitments have been blocked in this parliament?
To be clear, I didn't say they "blocked," I said:
> though the Lords recently have been playing silly buggers around the Employment Rights Act
This was a manifesto commitment which, while it eventually went through, it was touch and go for a little bit. Reporting at the time:
Okay, though to be fair to me, you said just after
> and ignoring the Salisbury Convention (which is that they shouldn’t block manifesto commitments)
which is what attracted my question.
Thanks for the link. I haven’t watched it, but I will observe that a lot of the modern legislation that comes out of the commons should properly attract the attention of the Lords, as it doesn’t get nearly enough attention from the commons.