Lord George Foulkes says the Russian’s peerage must be ‘looked at again’ after it emerges no formal rationale was given for ...

The government has been told on Monday by the House of Lords to curb disability and incapacity benefits as this is costing more than what is spent on the ...

Anas Sarwar, Labour’s leader in Scotland, also similarly promised that the party would scrap the House of Lords, noting that “it is an institution that has no place in 21st-century politics”.

Talk about reforming the House of Lords has been going on for many decades ... other promises since he became the Leader of the Labour Party, and now the Prime Minister of a very fragile landslide ...

THERE are, somewhat remarkably, 92 hereditary peers in the House of Lords. Since 1999, 90 of these choice gentlemen have been farcically elected ...

The New York Times explains that Labour reckons that ... Badenoch and the fast-rising Reform party headed by Nigel Farage. Mr. Farage played a heroic role in Brexit, but is now for abolishing the ...

As such, it was not part of the Labour Party manifesto on which they were elected in July. That means the bill does not fall under a longstanding convention that dictates the unelected House of Lords ...

In 2011, Lord Glasman was introduced into the House of Lords and became a Labour life peer. According to The Spectator, Lord Glasman is the only figure from the Labour Party to receive an ...

FORMER Scottish Labour minister Margaret Curran has taken a seat in the House of Lords. The 66-year-old, who lost her Glasgow seat in the Commons at the 2015 election, had previously served as shadow ...

Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords. The ...