At present there are 88 who are eligible to sit in the House of Lords ... hereditary peers, which had an electorate of precisely three people, viz, other Labour hereditaries. But, as the earl ...

when the bill arrives in the Lords. The hold-out hereditary peers may not go quietly. The battles of old rekindled. Back in 1999, one hereditary Tory peer, the Earl of Onslow, said he would behave ...

Plans to get rid of the remaining hereditary ... Lord Ravensdale, the great-grandson of Oswald Mosley who founded the British Union of Fascists in 1932, both sit as crossbench peers. The Earl ...

LONDON — Like his ancestors for centuries, the Earl of Devon serves in Parliament ... evicted most of the more than 750 hereditary peers from the Lords, though to avoid an aristocrats ...

London: Like his ancestors for centuries, the Earl of Devon serves in the ... Blair evicted most of the more than 750 hereditary peers from the Lords, though to avoid an aristocrats’ rebellion ...

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

Like his ancestors for centuries, the Earl of Devon serves in Parliament ... Blair evicted most of the more than 750 hereditary peers from the Lords, though to avoid an aristocrats’ rebellion ...

Once, I worked on this paper with a colleague who would one day be inheriting a peerage ... on BBC Radio 4 on the issue between an hereditary earl and Lord (Charlie) Falconer, Tony Blair ...

Hereditary Nobles Have Sat in Britain's Parliament for Centuries. Their Time May Be Up LONDON (AP) — Like his ancestors for centuries, the Earl of ... hereditary peers from the Lords, though ...