MPs have backed plans to get rid of all hereditary peers from the House of Lords. A bill making its way through Parliament ...

THERE are, somewhat remarkably, 92 hereditary peers in the House of Lords. Since 1999, 90 of these choice gentlemen have been farcically elected ...

Business in the House of Lords, including the first part of the debate on the second reading of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, on Wednesday 11 December.

THERE are, somewhat remarkably, 92 hereditary peers in the House of Lords. Since 1999, 90 of these choice gentlemen have been farcically elected to sit on the burgundy benches from out of the ...

Peers debated the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill (Henry Nicholls/PA) Bundling the removal of hereditary peers from the House of Lords with a wholesale revamp of the unelected chamber has ...

"I certainly feel that the role that the hereditary peers play in the House of Lords is exemplary," he says. He greatly defends the idea of service that he and his peers strive for but he also ...

A fresh bid has been made to remove automatic seats for bishops in the House of Lords through the hereditary peers bill.

Government set to abolish House of Lords hereditary peers Sky's political correspondent Serena Barker-Singh spoke to the Earl of Devon, who has one of the oldest hereditary peerages. He says the ...

Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords. The ...

What a blunder. Already the House of Lords Act of 1999 ended the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit. Ninety two peerages, though, were exempted. Now the government of Prime Minister Starmer ...

Labour peer Harriet Harman has tabled an amendment to the Hereditary Peers Bill which would remove the 26 seats automatically ...