The EU referendum result was not a vote of confidence in anyone. It was a vote of no confidence in practically everyone.
Whilst policy-wonks like to describe the differences in public spending on the old and young as an “injustice”, that’s not how thrifty pensioners see it.
Last June’s Brexit vote had less to do with EU membership than a wider discontent with how Britain is governed.
The problem is when peers’ collective distaste of the Bills which reflect what the majority of voters want inspires Government defeats. That’s dangerous when the fundamental flaw of the Lords is its democratic deficit.