Shipping the House of Lords north is a great idea. Let’s send the MPs as well | Simon Jenkins

Why not shift the entire national debate away from London while the Palace of Westminster is restored?

Will we soon see ermine on the Ouse? The weekend’s report that the House of Lords might be moving, lock, stock and barrel, to York is radical, exciting and sensible. If this is the new Boris Johnson, all hail the chief. It is precisely the talisman needed of a government that has had enough of the southwards drift. Such ideas are often mooted but always crushed by a reactionary Westminster....