Most new MPs settle into the Commons after weeks of concerted work to get selected, followed by months of hard foot-slogging to get elected. They must be exhausted, if exhilarated, as they emerge into the sunshine from Westminster tube station.

As the Labour leadership contenders talk of setting a movement for change in motion, Sonny Leong says we need to start by looking at root-and-branch constitutional reform to build the basis of a more equal Britain

As the hair shirts come out in the leadership contest, Roger Liddle says New Labour leaves a legacy of achievement on which the next generation must build

The government already enjoys a majority in the House of Lords, so plans to boost its own numbers put the House's reputation for independent scrutiny at great risk

If a Lib-Lab pact would bring on the progressive reform of our institutional structures faster, and more comprehensively than any other result, then bring it on.

It was written some weeks ago on LabourList that if the "constitutional reform bill" is to be a "democratic renewal bill" its process must come to reflect its ends.

The proposal to set up a Commons business committee may sound of interest only to parliamentary anoraks but its effects could be profound

PMQs on Progress: Conor Ryan, Paul Richards and Hopi Sen give their views on today's session

Will it really happen this time?