Tories and Lords play own ‘Game of Thrones’

Britain’s two Houses of Parliament are squaring up to one another, as the Lords emerge as the only effective opposition to Cameron and his Conservatives, writes Shaun Connolly.

A peculiarly British, real life Game of Thrones battle is raging at Westminster as the two great Houses of Parliament, the Commons and the Lords, prepare for all out political war against one another.

The impossibly ornate Lords chamber, itself dominated by a massive golden throne from which the Queen opens parliament, has emerged as the only effective opposition to majority Tory rule in the traditional seat of power, the Commons, as it seeks to shut down the ideologically driven ambitions of Conservative prime minister David Cameron.