The proposals will now undergo further scrutiny in the Lords, where they are expected to face tough opposition.

Time flies when you finally get into Government. After all, it has been mere months since Sir Keir Starmer was positioning ...

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 ...

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

Back in 1999, one hereditary Tory peer, the Earl of Onslow, said he would behave like a “football hooligan” in opposing New Labour’s abolition plan. It was watered down eventually, despite former ...

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

MPs have voted to axe remaining hereditary peers in a major constitutional shake-up. A total of 435 MPs voted to remove the ...

EVICTING the last remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords is “essential,” a Labour minister insisted today. Cabinet Office Minister Ellie Reeves made the remarks as she moved the third ...

A hereditary peer says he feels "hurt" by the prospect of losing his seat in the House of Lords. Lord Inglewood, who lives at Hutton-in-the-Forest near Penrith, Cumbria, said the government’s ...

He was looking forward in the fullness of time to doing his bit in the House of Lords. Alas, Tony Blair nipped that aspiration in the bud when he did away with almost all the hereditary peers. But ...