What’s the point of this Government? The question seems trite but is serious. It’s hard to parse the kaleidoscope of recent ...
Kemi Badenoch has distanced herself from the comments and does not have the power to decide Tory Party policy.
Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure to go further with reform of the House of Lords, with MPs calling for him to abolish ...
Conservative shadow deputy prime minister Sir Oliver Dowden called Labour's bid to oust hereditary peers a 'power grab' ...
British lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve in principle a bill to strip hereditary aristocrats of the right to sit and vote ...
But now there is a newfound zeal for change following Labour’s general election victory. On Tuesday, a draft law that would ...
The former Tory minister urged Labour to include more reforms including removing bishops from the upper chamber and introducing a retirement age.
MPs offered their backing to legislation to sweep away the remaining hereditary peers in what the Government describes as the “first step” of Lords reform. Abolishing the 92 seats reserved for peers ...
Scrapping hereditary peers will give Sir Keir Starmer more control over the House of Lords, the Earl of Devon has warned.
A Cumbrian peer has hit out at the ‘crude’ plan to rid the House of Lords of hereditary peers. Lord Inglewood sits in the House of Lords due to his birth right but under Labour’s plans for ...
A Cumbrian peer has hit out at the ‘crude’ plan to rid the House of Lords of hereditary peers. Lord Inglewood sits in the House of Lords due to his birth right but under Labour’s plans for the ...