article_snippet.sent: Labour and 11 Lib Dem MPs on May 7.
article_snippet.sent: The Lib Dems believe in ultimately tearing up the current House of Lords and making the current House of Lords a fully elected chamber.
article_snippet.sent: The Lib Dems interim plan is to cut the number of peers to 450.
article_snippet.sent: However while The Lib Dems wait for support from other parties for Lords reform, The Lib Dems are likely to continue adding to the ranks of The Lib Dems 99 appointed and four hereditary Lib Dem peers.
article_snippet.sent: But schools minister David Laws made clear last week that many of the frontbench are keen for another term, saying the party still have an ‘appetite for power’.
article_snippet.sent: A Lib Dem spokesman said: ‘This is not on our radar.
article_snippet.sent: the figures are fighting to get back into Parliament and our believe the figures will be successful so this is not relevant.