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Hang on are we mixing up whether the Lords pass bills which were in the manafesto?
Surely a government still has to pass a bill to pass the laws on how the electoral system works? For which they'd then need parliamentary majority.
I guess a key calculation is how many Tory seats the lib dems and greens take. Because they'd definitely vote for it, so as long as you have a decent number of Labour MPs in favour it'd go through.
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The government can't just do anything they want without passing bills through parliament, unless it's a supposedly minor change which ministers can make according to an earlier act (known as a statutory instrument).
The Lords cannot block a bill introducing something that was in a winning party’s manifesto (Salisbury Convention) but can reject (for a while) or delay (for a parliamentary year) legislation that wasn't.
tbc
No you probaby have that right.
I just assumed it was the sort of thing that would require a parliamentary majority...didn't realise that having something on the manifesto and winning an election was enough.