Was the 1911 Parliament Act the moment Britain quietly became a democracy β or when the Lords lost their nerve?
In 1911, the House of Lords was stripped of its power to veto legislation after a bruising fight with the Liberal government. Some call it the birth of modern British democracy; others say it just shifted unchecked power to the Commons.
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