Chris Grayling: we’ll figure out how to take a measured approach with the Lords ‘in the next few hours’

After the government’s humiliating defeats in the House of Lords yesterday over tax credits, how will it seek revenge on the upper chamber? Chris Grayling, the Leader of the House of Commons, spoke on the Today programme about the government’s plans. On tax credits, he said ‘the Chancellor is clear, he will look again at the transitional arrangements’. But on the relationship between the Commons and the Lords, Grayling said a more careful approach would be taken — one that will be worked out ‘in the next few hours’:

‘The first thing not to do is to react on the hoof to this. We have to have a measured look at what the Lords has done, what the constitutional arrangements have been, what they need to be. There will have to be change – of course there will have to be change.

‘The Prime Minister has said he wants to setup a review of the way these conventions work.