Many House of Lords members claim £300 a day 'for doing nothing'

Lady D’Souza, former Lord Speaker, cites example of peer running in while taxi sat outside as BBC screens documentary on workings of LordsMany members of the House of Lords collect their full daily allowance while contributing nothing, a senior parliamentarian has claimed.Lady D’Souza, a former Lord Speaker, cited one example in which she said a peer ran into the Houses of Parliament “presumably to show that he’d attended”, while a taxi sat outside with the engine r