Former PM Boris Johnson faced a backlash after awarding his ex-aide Charlotte Owen a life peerage when she was just 30 in a ...

The fact that it has taken Britain until the cusp of 2025 to seriously move towards ending a system rooted in feudalism makes ...

Britain’s Labor government is preparing to ‘reform’ the largest legislative body in the Free World by ending the last vestige ...

Peers have criticised a "thoroughly nasty" plan to remove hereditary members from the House of Lords - accusing Labour of launching a "class war" and sending them to the "guillotine". The bill to ...

SIR Keir Starmer has triggered a fresh cronyism row by packing the House of Lords with 30 new peers – despite vowing to slim ...

On Tuesday, a draft law that would remove hereditary peers from the Lords passed to its next stage. There are 92 seats for hereditary peers who have inherited their titles from their families ...

The very same day that the act became law, Tony Benn did just that. Three weeks later he regained his seat in the Commons.

What a time to be a socialist! Particularly of the cork-popping kind. Picture them in their artillery emplacements, ...

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. By Mark Landler Reporting from London Godfrey John ...

However, ahead of the general election this year, the plans were scaled back, with Sir Keir instead pledging to remove the 92 hereditary peers and introduce an age cap of 80. It is understood Sir ...

“We are committed to an overdue programme of reform and have already laid legislation to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the Lords.” Andrew Griffith, the shadow ...