Labour's general election manifesto pledged to introduce a mandatory retirement age of 80 for members of the upper house. It ...

Lord George Foulkes says the Russian’s peerage must be ‘looked at again’ after it emerges no formal rationale was given for ...

The government has been told on Monday by the House of Lords to curb disability and incapacity benefits as this is costing more than what is spent on the ...

Anas Sarwar, Labour’s leader in Scotland, also similarly promised that the party would scrap the House of Lords, noting that “it is an institution that has no place in 21st-century politics”.

Talk about reforming the House of Lords has been going on for many decades ... other promises since he became the Leader of the Labour Party, and now the Prime Minister of a very fragile landslide ...

THERE are, somewhat remarkably, 92 hereditary peers in the House of Lords. Since 1999, 90 of these choice gentlemen have been farcically elected ...

TV cameras broadcasting from the House of Lords chamber. Proceedings were televised on BBC1 and BBC2 for the first time on 23 ...

The New York Times explains that Labour reckons that ... Badenoch and the fast-rising Reform party headed by Nigel Farage. Mr. Farage played a heroic role in Brexit, but is now for abolishing the ...

The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers ... most of whom are life peers, and adding more Labour peers would boost the party’s representation in the chamber. There are currently 187 Labour peers ...

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The Mayor of London recently wrote in a comment piece that "the spectre of a resurgent fascism haunts the West".

Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords. The ...