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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 ...
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 House of Lords is very old, but not quite continuous. In 1649, shortly after the execution of King Charles I, the ...
U.K. prime minister had a bold plan for cleaning up British politics. A year in, campaigners say it amounts to little more ...
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 ...
Keir Starmer has not been the luckiest general. But, in one respect, he has bested Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington will ...
Peers would be on dicey political ground if they tried to stop the bill passed by MPs – but they may run into problems over ...
A Labour peer and former adviser to Downing Street has been found dead in a Welsh river. Dyfed-Powys Police confirmed Labour ...
Dyfed-Powys Police has confirmed it recovered the body of Lord David Lipsey - a former journalist and a Labour party ...