The UK government on Thursday introduces legislation to axe seats in the House of Lords retained for hereditary lawmakers as it moves to reform parliament's unelected upper chamber. The bill will ...
LONDON — The UK government has proposed a major parliamentary reform to abolish the remaining hereditary peers' right to sit and vote in the House of Lords, marking the most significant change to the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Earl of Shrewsbury has been banned from the House of Lords for a second time in three years after accepting he breached the ...
In this long read by James Joseph, Managing Editor for Long-Form Content and Lilian Trickey, a student at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, they unpack the case of whether removing hereditary ...
For centuries an odd tradition lay dormant in our democracy. A number of nobleman have had the chance to sit in parliament, simply by birthright - 92 seats in the House of Lords are eligible to male ...
In his latest batch of appointments to the Lords, Sir Keir announced a fresh list of 25 Labour peerages as he gave jobs for life to cronies and ex-advisers. There were also five nominations for ...
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House of Lords reform first began under Labour in the late 1990s - Copyright KIINGITANGA/AFP Handout House of Lords reform first began under Labour in the late 1990s ...
The Earl of Shrewsbury has been banned from the House of Lords for a second time in three years after accepting he breached the rules. He was found by the Lords Conduct Committee to have used a rail ...