The House of Lords has voted in favour of a Conservative-led amendment to ‘day-one’ rights provisions in the final reporting stage of the Employment Rights Bill. Labour have promised to hand ...

The U.K. government has pledged to remove hereditary peers from Parliament in 2025. For Lord Cromwell and 87 others, it is a wistful departure.

Yet the Lords, far from “ indefensible,” as Sir Keir once described it, is one of the last bastions of serious politics in Britain. Replacing it with an elected house, if the replacements are to be of ...

The Lords is getting more and more crowded. House of Lords/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND At present, around a fifth of all peers and coming up to a quarter of life peers sat at one time or another in the ...

Although, this being the House of Lords, it began quite slowly. It opened with some prayers from a bishop, and a mace being carried into the chamber. And then Black Rod, in tights, following it in.

Government figures "expect the bill to be debated for a long time once it has made its way to the Lords", said The Guardian. Out of those hereditary peers who retain seats in the Lords, 42 are ...

Stereotypes of the Lords as a holdout of social conservatism are now largely out of date. Indeed it is the Lords that has, to a large extent, kept the issue of assisted dying on the political agenda.

Britain’s Parliament has two chambers: the House of Commons, whose members are directly elected by voters in 650 constituencies across the U.K.; and the unelected Lords. For centuries it was ...

Britain’s Parliament has two chambers: the House of Commons, whose members are directly elected by voters in 650 constituencies across the U.K.; and the unelected Lords. For centuries it was ...

In the days leading up to the vote in the House of Lords prominent artists and groups protested the move. These included the likes of Paul McCartney, Jeanette Winterson, Dua Lipa and the Royal ...