No matter how bad the Rwanda bill is, a bunch of unelected peers shouldn’t decide its fate | Simon Jenkins

Democracy needs checks and balances. But the undemocratic composition of the Lords deprives it of basic legitimacy

Almost everyone agrees the government’s Rwanda bill is a bad idea. Its effects on deterring immigration will be trivial. It fails to show that Rwanda will be a humane recipient of migrants. It delivers appalling value for huge sums of public money, and is a mere sop to rightwing voters. All these are reasons why the House of Commons should not have voted in its favour. But it did so,...