Andrew MacKinlay is quite right. It is high time to amend the Standing Orders of both Houses so as to require that Ministers appear to answer questions in either House as required, rather than only in that of which they are members.
This was historically the case, like multimember constituencies, and like representation specifically by county, among other things of which another time.
The law has never been changed to prevent a Prime Minister in the House of Lords, which is, after all, a House of Parliament. I don't want Peter Mandelson to become Prime Minister. But he very well might.
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