Farage should be allowed to appoint peers to the Lords

In Westminster, tradition often trumps innovation, and Nigel Farage’s latest demand has stirred the pot with characteristic vigour. The Reform UK leader has called on the Prime Minister to grant his party the right to nominate peers to the House of Lords, framing it as a correction to a glaring ‘democratic disparity.’ Far from a personal vanity project, this is a plea for proportionality in our unelected upper chamber, where Reform, with its four MPs, control of ten councils, and a commanding lead in national polls, remains conspicuously absent. As reported in the Times , Farage points to the Greens, who boast four MPs yet two peers, and the DUP with five MPs and six lords, underscoring Reform’s exclusion despite garnering over 4.1 million votes in the 2024 election. It is, in essence, a