The House of Commons is the lower house of Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster. Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks ...

House of Lords reform is being debated once again with the passage of the bill to end hereditary peerages.But far more wide-reaching reform is needed. Our research reveals potential flaws in the ...

In a move that would shake up the face of British democracy, the new Labour Government has proposed to expel all 92 remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords.This legislative push is part of ...

A Sheffield councillor has said he never imagined being given a seat in the House of Lords following his "humble farming background" in Kashmir.

A bill to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults in Britain has reached Parliament, with activists hoping the UK will become one of few to legalize the process.

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 ...