Scrapping hereditary peers will give Sir Keir Starmer more control over the House of Lords, the Earl of Devon has warned.

Landmark legislation to remove the right of the remaining 92 hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords and is ...

Alas, Tony Blair nipped that aspiration in the bud when he did away with almost all the hereditary peers. But what struck me ...

Back in 1999, one hereditary Tory peer, the Earl of Onslow, said he would behave like a “football hooligan” in opposing New ...

SIR Ashley Fox, Member of Parliament for Bridgwater, has expressed his opposition to legislation that will remove hereditary peers from the House ...

Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said there should no place in the 21st century 'reserved for those who are born into certain ...

Nick Thomas-Symonds has said Labour's proposal to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords is "long overdue".

Ministers are set to abolish hereditary peers in the House of Lords "by Easter" it's been revealed. MPs will vote this week ...

Shadow Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden MP refused to say, when asked directly during the debate if he supported ...

On Tuesday, a draft law that would remove hereditary peers from the Lords passed to its next stage. There are 92 seats for hereditary peers who have inherited their titles from their families ...

Bill will deliver largest constitutional change to Parliament in a quarter of a centuryRemoval of hereditary peers is an ...