Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is delaying plans to scrap the House of Lords as it nails down its policy platform ahead of a general election expected this year, the Financial Times reported.

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.

LONDON — Britain’s opposition Labour Party on Monday pledged to scrap Parliament’s unelected upper house if it wins government as part of a raft if policies intended to stake out Labour’s ...

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

The House of Lords has backed a move to block the expulsion of hereditary peers from the upper chamber. Peers supported by ...

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

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

The Lords would do Britons a service by amending — or even helping defeat — this bill. Yet it could prove the last hurrah for the storied house, whose powers and role Labour is aiming to curtail. Many ...

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 ...

This move is part of broader reforms intended to reduce the size of the House of Lords and ensure no party holds "an inbuilt majority", said The Times. Labour plans to abolish 92 hereditary ...

The Liberal Democrats and Labour each have four hereditary peers sitting in the House of Lords at present. Two from each party would receive life peerages under one proposal being discussed among ...

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.. Sue Gray, Sir Keir’s ...