Sorry to break up the cosy climate of goodwill...

Akenaton, forgive me if you know this (I don't know who is UK-based and who is not).

The House of Lords is an unlected chamber whose only statutory power is to house the "Law Lords", who form the highest court of legal appeal.

The HoL has no function in the passage of legislation except to review legislation and, if they object, to send a bill back to the house of commons for legistlators to think again and choose to ignore the HoL or not.

I am not up to speed on this piece of legislation, sorry, but thought it was worth explaining that anything the HoL can do can only ever be a temporary - couple of months - setback to the will of the Government, if it is not minded to change its direction.