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

Sarah Botham's comments come after Lord Foulkes of Cumnock accused the former cricketer of not attending the chamber because ...

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

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

NSS welcomes Government commitment to legislate for register this parliamentary session as it would help tackle illegal faith ...

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 ...

Lord Triesman, the former FA chairman, denounces county that charged teenage footballer, saying ‘she has been treated in a ...

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

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 ...

Lord Tony Woodley says people still being held on abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences are subjected to miscarriages of justice.