The Latest Breaking News from Lords

The ceremony marks the start of a new parliamentary session and is full of tradition

Exclusive: Tory peer Michelle Mone used private email addresses to contact Gove and another cabinet minister about PPE offer

The Government also voted to create an offshore processing system for asylum seekers. Ghana, Rwanda, Albania and Denmark have refused to host a UK processing centre

Approach to refugees contained in borders bill is ‘deeply shameful’, says Labour’s Yvette Cooper

Former postal workers' leader Lord Young, 79, tried to take part in a debate on genetically modified organisms - but he was given short shrift by a furious Tory whip. NOTE: Since this story was published, Lord Young has denied being asleep and demanded an apology from the Tory whip

Boris Johnson has handed out honours to a string of allies, Tory donors and cronies during his time in Downing Street

Boris Johnson now faces another Tory MPs' revolt after peers voted 198-158 for an amendment to the Health and Care Bill, ensuring sums that councils pay towards care count towards a £86,000 cap

PM says he did not intervene to get Russian-British newspaper owner into Lords after security risk warning

Minister James Cleverly said it was irrelevant that Lord Lebedev's dad was a former KGB agent and compared the situation to his own father being an ex-chartered surveyor