... Bill. This was a particularly confrontational step; as the Lords had breached the convention of not interfering with money Bills. Even after two general elections in 1910 had returned the same Government to power, the Lords were not prepared to accept the proposed limitation on its powers. The matter was only resolved when the commons played their trump card, and King George V made it known that he was prepared to create 400 new Liberal peers to overwhelm opposition. Thus the Lords were compelled to accept the 1911 Parliament Act, which removed the power to veto a money Bill altogether, and reduced the power of veto in other matters to a power to delay for two years. Even with this reduced power of veto, the Lords could still disrupt the progress of Bills proposed in the last two years of a Parliamentary term, as they could seek to ...

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