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The House of Lords has tried to block Labour’s ban on hereditary peers. On Wednesday, peers backed an amendment to the ...
Keir Starmer has not been the luckiest general. But, in one respect, he has bested Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington will ...
House of Lords reform is another. The Labour manifesto promised to remove the right of Hereditary Peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords and to introduce a mandatory retirement age.
The House of Lords faces “immediate modernisation” under Labour, although the party put no timeframe on Sir Keir Starmer’s long-held ambition to abolish the unelected chamber.
The Lords, whose powers Labour aims to curtail, would do Britons a service by amending — or even helping defeat — the bill. The House of Lords, which faces an uncertain future under Britain's Labour ...
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Sir Keir Starmer will appoint around 30 new Labour peers on Thursday in a bid to tilt the power balance in the House of Lords towards his party, The Telegraph can reveal.
As Labour attempt to reform the Lords, the end of the peer show is still a long way off The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, aimed at kicking out the 92 peers who inherited their seat, is ...
LONDON — Some of Britain’s hereditary peers are already planning a comeback to the House of Lords despite the ruling Labour Party’s plans to boot them out. Peers from multiple parties have discussed ...
A Labour peer and former adviser to Downing Street has been found dead in a Welsh river. Dyfed-Powys Police confirmed Labour ...