Our House of Lords is so fat it’s the butt of ridicule. More than eight times as many members ‘sit’ in our second chamber as in the Senate of the United States. True, not all in our upper house are political paymasters or hoary former vote-winners. But we have too many of every sort in there: far too many.
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