Pete Wishart: “I have watched, like everybody else, as the world has burned this summer.”

And to think that this work has concluded is utterly madness.

The answer to that vulnerability cannot be to remain permanently dependent on the fossil fuels that expose us to precisely this instability.

What is needed is a proper debate about whether it should exist at all. Anything less is simply protecting a broken system.

Once again Westminster is tinkering around the edges of a fundamentally broken system. The House of Lords is an absurdly bloated, unelected chamber that has no place in a modern democracy.