Constitutional Reform

Labour Reforms:

• Abolished voting rights of most hereditary peers, in the House of Lords, and cut the number down to 92.
• The committee system in the House of Commons was slightly changed.
• The Human Rights Act of nineteen ninety eight was included in UK law.
• Devolution - transfer of power from Westminster to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• These new parliaments were also to be elected differently through electoral reform.
• Introduced an elected mayor to London.
• Cabinet system introduced to local government.
• Judiciary reformed - Supreme Court set…