Peers supported by 280 votes to 243, majority 37, an amendment to the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill that would instead see a gradual reduction of bloodline peers.

Hereditary peers make last-ditch plea to be spared in ‘ruthless purge’ of Lords - Bloodline members complain they are being treated like ‘discarded rubbish’ under the move that was a Labour manifesto ...

What a blunder. Already the House of Lords Act of 1999 ended the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit. Ninety two peerages, though, were exempted. Now the government of Prime Minister Starmer ...

The hereditary members of the House of Lords have had their day. The Bill that will seal their fate will be read for a third time in the chamber next week.

Peers in the House of Lords have been accused of trying to block key protections for millions of workers as they push through ...

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 ...

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. There are ...

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.