Pete Wishart: “This is the wrong thing to do, it is the wrong response.”

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

So an unelected house composed of Unionist party donors and cronies, friends of former PMs, failed MPs, Church of England bishops and aristocrats should sit in judgment on a democratically elected party that has just won its fifth…

I therefore hope the committee will think very carefully before pursuing a course of action that could once again raise questions about its impartiality and potentially damage its relationships with key stakeholders across Scotland.

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.