The Latest Breaking News from House of Lords

Letters: A group of signatories including Amna Ahmed and Tom Brake call on the government to announce a timeline for public consultation. Plus a letter from Chris Rennard

British lawmakers are voting on a bill to strip hereditary aristocrats of the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords after more than 700 years

ANTI-MONARCHY campaigners have welcomed the introduction of a bill to scrap hereditary peers from the House of Lords but have called on reform to…

Perhaps it was because I watched it during the first week of lockdown, but I have a particular attachment to this BBC documentary on House of Lords reform, first aired in February 2000. It is a Michael Cockerell production, so you know it will be good, but it is even better than that.

The government committed before the general election to abolish the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords

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.

Exclusive: Leading Muslim groups are lodging official complaints to the House of Lords about Lord Pearson of Rannoch’s speech

KING CHARLES delivered a speech in the House of Lords today ...

The UK government on Wednesday announced plans to axe 92 House of Lords seats retained for hereditary lawmakers, resurrecting reform of the unelected chamber started under Tony Blair's Labour government in the 1990s.