Letter: After the Lords

Sir: The Government has announced that an Appointments Commission that will create "people's peers". We should finally get a more representative input into the British political system. But yet again we still have no input from youth.

Was it not Tony Blair who said he wanted a "young country"? Will we ever see a broader age range in the Lords, including significantly younger peers, who understand youth's problems?

The Bishops have their say in the Lords and there are many different specialists among the cross-benchers, so when is the New Labour government going to do something for the future people of this country, rather than the past?

OLLIE COCHRAN

Brentwood, Essex