Removing bishops from the Lords debate attracts few MPs
from Religion Media Centre:
The day after the Archbishop’s’ win on the Illegal Migration bill, thirteen MPS attended a Westminster Hall debate in parliament, calling for bishops to lose their place in the House of Lords.
The debate was proposed by Tommy Sheppard, SNP MP and co-chair of the all-party parliamentary humanist group, and was backed on social media by comedian Sandi Toksvig.
Mr Sheppard said the level of interest in the issue is wide, even though there were so few in the room, because the bishops’ presence gives democracy a bad name. Conservative MP Andrew Selous said the issue probably didn’t make even the top 100 things his constituents were interested in. A
full running commentary was provided on Twitter by the CofE’s Head of Parliamentary Affairs, Richard Chapman. Responding on the government’s behalf, Cabinet Office minister Alex Burghart said removing bishops from the House of Lords was “not something that the government will be engaging in”.
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