The Lords would do Britons a service by amending — or even helping defeat — this bill. Yet it could prove the last hurrah for the storied house, whose powers and role Labour is aiming to curtail. Many ...

The House of Lords in Britain’s Houses of Parliament opens its Peers’ Dining Room to the public for a few days every year, and this writer enjoyed a very British three-course meal.

A law to reform the House of Lords is being introduced by the Labour government. The bill will remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers, whose presence in the Lords is described as "outdated and ...

The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, which has already been through the Commons, will abolish the 92 seats reserved for members of the upper chamber who are there by right of birth.

Anyone can get a seat in the House of Lords.You don’t need to be a party donor, government benefactor, baron, baroness or a bishop. The Palace of Westminster’s second chamber’s Peers ...

MPs have backed plans to get rid of all hereditary peers from the House of Lords. A bill making its way through Parliament would abolish the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherit their titles ...

A law to reform the House of Lords is being introduced by the Labour government. The bill will remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers, whose presence in the Lords is described as "outdated and ...

The House of Lords, external is part of the UK Parliament.. Also known as the Upper Chamber, it is independent from the House of Commons, external - where 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) debate ...