MPs have backed plans to get rid of all hereditary peers from the House of Lords.A bill making its way through Parliament ...

Labour’s House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill overwhelmingly passed its third reading by 435 votes to 73 on Tuesday, consigning the principle — and the 92 places reserved for hereditary peers in the ...

Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden stressed MPs had backed the move and it was now down to peers to do the same ...

At present there are 88 who are eligible to sit in the House of Lords ... was being very witty about the last vote to replace one of the Labour hereditary peers, which had an electorate of ...

The Government has pledged to axe the remaining 92 hereditary peers in the House of Lords and set up a statutory ... follow a series of votes by MPs last February which failed to resolve the ...

Labour bill has enraged some hereditary peers, but was also criticised by other lords for failing to go far enough ...

As hereditary peers are readied for the exit, Sir Gavin Williamson wants bishops to follow them out of the door. Harriet ...

Tory critics have branded the move to oust hereditary peers "partisan" and "political gerrymandering", aimed at reducing ...

A law to reform the House of Lords is being introduced by the Labour government. The bill will remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers, whose presence in the Lords is described as "outdated and ...

Labour’s latest reform of the House of Lords will make virtually no difference ... But 92 were reprieved in a last-minute deal with the Tories—hereditary peers are, of course, mostly Tory—to smooth ...

The Government aims to axe the remaining 92 hereditary peers from the Lords, as part of the second stage of reform of the Upper House. The size of the House will be capped at 600, with 120 non ...

At present there are 88 who are eligible to sit in the House of Lords. They sit ... being very witty about the last vote to replace one of the Labour hereditary peers, which had an electorate ...