MOST BRITONS favour an elected House of Lords, a survey revealed yesterday.

The People and Power survey, which drew on the opinions of a weighted 2,147 adults who gave their opinions online , found that only 28 per cent favoured an appointed upper house despite the “experience and knowledge” they were told this offered.

And 52 per cent thought legislators “should always be elected.”

The survey was carried out before David Cameron unveiled the latest tranche of party political peers to be elevated to the Lords.

Prime Minister David Cameron is said to remain “open” to Lords reform despite being slapped down by Tory MPs at his last attempt in 2012.

Labour leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to replace the Lords with an elected institution, with curbs on its powers to prevent it becoming a rival to the Commons.

Respondents were seemingly not offered the option of abolishing the Lords in favour of a unicameral parliament — a policy on the left of the labour movement for generations.

Young Labour national committee member Max Shanly told the Star: “The House of Lords represents how unequal a society we live in, in which a minority of people hold power they were not given by a majority, to whom they are not accountable, yet have the ability to change the lives of without any authority but that of patronage.

“Its abolition would take away the privilege of a small minority who have governed this country for too many centuries.”

The new study also found 67 per cent of the public feel they have little or no influence over policy decisions that affect their lives.

Three-fifths backed devolution of political powers — 31 per cent at city or council level, 21 per cent at the level of individual nations of Britain and 7 per cent at village or neighbourhood level.

And 52 per cent said they felt the electoral system was “outdated” — with just 27 per cent considering it democratic.