At the 2005 General Election Paul Tyler retired as MP for North Cornwall, after serving the county for a total of some 14 years. In addition to his relentless campaigning on a broad range of issues during his time in the House of Commons, Paul also served the Liberal Democrat Front Bench as Chief Whip and most recently as Shadow Leader of the House.

Paul was subsequently made a working peer and introduced to the House of Lords on 15th June. He is now Liberal Democrat spokesman in the Lords on constitutional reform issues, and served on the 2006 Joint Committee on Conventions, which examined and set out the relationship between the House of Lords and the House of Commons.  He later sat on the cross-party group convened to assist in prepartion a White Paper on Lords Reform.

This site will serves as a portal for the issues which Paul continues to raise in the UK Parliament and is regularly updated.

He also contributes regularly to 'lordsoftheblog' 

Paul also chaired a special policy working group for the Liberal Democrats, on Better Governance.  Its report, For the people, by the people was published in September 2007, and was approved overwhelmingly by the party's autumn conference.  It is available here.

Image:  Paul has kept the Cornish flag flying