The government still has the ability to overturn any veto in the upper house with its two-thirds majority in the lower one.

ECONOMIST: Japan

If the Commons were to remain with its current electoral system, and if the devolved assemblies turned out not to be as powerful as is often assumed, then it might well make sense to increase the power of the Lords, adding veto and initiative powers to its current ability only to revise and delay.

ECONOMIST: Farewell, Lord Bumbledom, hello Lord Crony?