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Bishops in the Lords:Why are they still there?

Through nearly five hundred years of constitutional change, the Church of England has clung onto its entitlement to bishops in the House of Lords. Never mind that no other country in the modern world, except for Iran, has representatives in its Parliament who are there solely by virtue of being religious leaders. Never mind the ....

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