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

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

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

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

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 ...

Cross party support expressed for abolishing the bishops' bench entirely in debate on reforming the House of Lords ...

MEMBERS of Parliament have voted to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords, but rejected an amendment from the ...

The amendment was defeated after 378 MPs voted it down, with just 41 MPs in favour. Despite most new Labour MPs reportedly ...

The Commons heard calls for the bishops to focus on matters in their ministries rather than on the running of the country.

Landmark legislation to remove the right of the remaining 92 hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords and is closer after passing its second reading in the House of Commons.

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 The bill will remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers, whose presence in the Lords is described as "outdated and ...

Donors and “cronies” should be removed from the House of Lords, an SNP MP has said, as he called for the upper chamber to be ...