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Financial privilege - when it comes to money, the Commons holds the power
More light than heat in financial privilege row

So how are peers taking the constitutional nose-snubbing they’ve endured by the Commons, which invoked financial privilege as it overrode the Lords’ amendments two weeks ago? As we’ve seen in the upper House this afternoon, not very well.

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Benefit cap resistance likely to be dampened through nine-month grace period
Welfare reform: Don’t expect much fight from the Lords

Reading this blogpost is going to be a painful experience for opponents of the government’s welfare reforms – especially those that read my observations on the theoretical possibilities about resistance in the Lords last week.