FORMER Ribble Valley MP Lord Waddington has called on the government to promise that the remaining 92 hereditary peers in the House of Lords will keep their places in Parliament's upper chamber until their elected replacements have been voted on.
The government has announced its proposal to reform the Lords with 60 per cent political party appointments, 20 per cent independent appointments and 20 per cent elected.
The elected peers will replace the remaining hereditaries.
The plan has been fiercely criticised by Pendle Labour MP Gordon Prentice and current Ribble Valley Tory MP Nigel Evans.
Lord Waddington said the hereditaries must remain until the elected peers had been chosen.
And he demanded that the elected peers should get more money than the appointees.
Government minister Lord Williams told the Tory veteran he would consider the issues raised very carefully.
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