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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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