Modeling Journey

It seems so, if this Lord is to be believed:

It seems only fair that the Conservatives having almost won the election should have more peers than Labour who thoroughly lost it. But surely that does not require anything like another hundred.

I can think of only three reasons why the Government’s business managers might feel that they need such a large infusion of peers loyal to the Coalition. One is that they do not trust the Lib Dem peers to support the coalition in difficult and perhaps unpopular decisions.

The second is that they do not trust Conservative peers to vote for measures which were not in the Conservative manifesto, or indeed for all those measures from the Lib Dem manifesto which are now coalition policy.