The House of Lords has tried to block Labour’s ban on hereditary peers. On Wednesday, peers backed an amendment to the ...

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.

Keir Starmer has not been the luckiest general. But, in one respect, he has bested Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington will ...

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 ...

The House of Lords is very old, but not quite continuous. In 1649, shortly after the execution of King Charles I, the ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

The body of a member of the House of Lords and Labour politician has been recovered from the River Wye, police have confirmed ...

A Labour peer and former adviser to Downing Street has been found dead in a Welsh river. Dyfed-Powys Police confirmed Labour ...