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 The bill will remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers, whose presence in the Lords is described as "outdated and ...

King Charles has delivered the King's Speech in the House of Lords, setting out the government's planned new laws as part of the State Opening of Parliament. The speech marks the start of the new ...

In this speech to the Commons, Conservative MP Laura Sandys calls on her fellow parliamentarians to back reform of the upper House, as a step towards strengthening the powers of Parliament as a whole, ...

The House of Lords is, in many respects, an anomaly. Most mature democracies have a second parliamentary chamber, but relatively few of these are, like the House of Lords, unelected (though Canada and ...

Aristocrats sitting in the House of Lords have spoken of the “deep” personal offence they feel at the Government move to boot them out and have pleaded for a late reprieve against “the ruthless and ...

The House of Commons must now consider a number of late-stage amendments to the long-awaited bill after it passed the House of Lords stage.