Abstract
The year 2005 may well be seen as a highly significant year for the House of Lords, though not for reasons that might have been expected. During Labour’s first term of office, and the early part of its second, many had hoped that this general election would see the first directly elected members of the UK’s second chamber. However, thanks to lack of agreement over Lords’ reform, this did not occur. Neither Labour’s 2005 manifesto nor post-election announcements provided any greater prospect of reform in the third term. If anything, a settlement looked further away than ever. By 2005, the notion that the chamber, dubbed ‘transitional’ in 1999 (with the departure of most hereditary peers), might continue to exist for many years was starting to take hold.
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