End of hereditary peers moves one step closer
There are 92 seats for hereditary peers who have inherited their titles from their families, and in its general election ...
Removing hereditary peers ‘will hand Starmer more control’
Scrapping hereditary peers will give Sir Keir Starmer more control over the House of Lords, the Earl of Devon has warned.
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Removal of hereditary peers from House of Lords ‘long overdue’, says Thomas-Symonds
Nick Thomas-Symonds has said Labour's proposal to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords is "long overdue".
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Ministers set to axe hereditary peers 'by Easter' with Labour poised to force through bill
Ministers are set to abolish hereditary peers in the House of Lords "by Easter" it's been revealed. MPs will vote this week ...
Hereditary nobles have sat in Britain’s Parliament for centuries. Their time may be up.
British lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve in principle a bill to strip hereditary aristocrats of the right to sit and vote ...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
A debate in the House of Commons on the second reading of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, which will remove the ...
Don't stop at booting out 92 ermine-clad hereditary Lords – Labour should abolish them all
Unlike the rest of us, not only do the dinosaurs in the Lords have jobs for life – all 804 members of the crony factory have ...
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5 things we’ll miss as Britain’s hereditary peers face the chop
From quirky family ties to baffling by-elections, Britain’s soon-to-be-abolished aristocratic lawmakers have been a unique feature of the system.
MPs back ending 'indefensible' hereditary peers in House of Lords
Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said there should no place in the 21st century 'reserved for those who are born into certain ...
Keir Starmer wants to pack the House of Lords with 200 more peers despite vowing to scrap the unelected Chamber
SIR Keir Starmer wants to pack the House of Lords with 200 more Labour peers – despite previously pledging to abolish the ...
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Bridgwater MP Ashley Fox opposes hereditary peers removal
SIR Ashley Fox, Member of Parliament for Bridgwater, has expressed his opposition to legislation that will remove hereditary peers from the House ...
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Calls to remove bishops from House of Lords as MPs support upper chamber reforms
The Government has been challenged to go further in reforming the House of Lords and remove the 26 Church of England bishops from the upper chamber. MPs offered their backing to legislation to ...