The House of Lords has backed a move to block the expulsion of hereditary ... We now are debating a manifesto commitment from ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...