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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Tory critics have branded the move to oust hereditary peers "partisan" and "political gerrymandering", aimed at reducing ...

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

MPs are to consider calls to remove the Church of England bishops from the House of Lords and introduce a mandatory ...

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.

Truss reportedly spent some of her last days in office studying ... Party chair Ellie Reeves has said. Opening the House of Lords (hereditary peers) Bill committee stage in the Commons, Ms Reeves ...