The former Conservative cabinet minister – and life peer – on the ancien régime.

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 ...

NSS supports amendment to hereditary peers bill to remove automatic seats for 26 bishops in House of Lords. A fresh bid has been made to remove automatic seats for bishops in the House of Lords ...

A snapshot of the change was contained in John Major’s evidence to the House ... present the Lords as a bulwark against what’s going wrong in our politics. The few hereditary peers I’ve ...

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

Over 600 hereditary dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons were ejected by Labour from the Lords in 1999. Now the House is made up of life peers, law lords, bishops and a group of 92 ...

Reform UK have topped a major national poll for the first time as the party looks to win seats across Cumbria and the rest of the country.

As Labour plans to remove the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords progress through parliament, not everybody is happy about it. Critics have called the legislation “bungled piecemeal ...

The incident showed the “clear pattern” of the non-affiliated peer’s poor behaviour continued, according to the House of Lords conduct committee. Lord Stone, who has admitted to getting ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer was elected to the Labour leadership on a pledge to abolish the House of Lords, but has since U-turned and has instead opted for minor reform, removing hereditary peers ...