Home office minister Lord Rooker sent the Government into chaos yesterday when he suggested that immigrants could be required to learn English as a condition of being given UK citizenship.

A House of Lords committee has criticised the Football Governance Bill for failing to define which leagues the incoming football regulator will have power over. The bill, which had its second ...

Meanwhile, Labour peer Lord Rooker called for the bishops to be expelled further down the road in a different Bill, but said he would “make an exception” for the Bishop of Newcastle ...