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

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’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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

The House of Lords, the UK’s second parliamentary chamber, is primarily a revising chamber and urges the government of the day to rethink some aspects of its proposed legislation. However, it is ...

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 ...