Why has parliament (UK) been criticised for being insufficiently representative?

Parliament consists of two houses, the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The U.K is broken down into voting constituencies and citizens living in each of them elect a member to the House of Commons. Almost all candidates in general elections belong to and stand on behalf of a party. The party that gains the majority in the House of Commons usually forms the government and the leader of that party the …

…the voices of the minorities to be heard, and expressed through the MP. To say that MP's do not effectively represent their voters, in the past would have been accurate, but nowadays politicians have come to realise that it is by doing that that will ensure re-election. It is therefore in their own interests to voice the people's views rather than furthering their own career. Rendering arguments of non-representative parliaments useless. Claudette Martin - 1003 words