The State Opening of Parliament on 27 May 2015
Much post-election talk focused on the implications of the slender 12-seat majority won by the Conservative government in the House of Commons. In the House of Lords, however, David Cameron’s Conservative Party comes nowhere near a majority, holding less than a third of the seats.
Although the Lords is traditionally seen as being far less partisan than the Commons, government policies that have the capacity to unite opposing parties — such as abolishing the Human Rights Act or exiting the European Union — could be subject to determined resistance.
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