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Only a fully elected second chamber will give us true democracy, says Green party peer Jenny Jones

Peers said they were raising a ‘big red flag’ and tough choices will be needed

Gillian Merron tells Lords the goal of reducing rate of preterm births to 6%, which was set in 2019, may be changed

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 will begin the process of removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords, as it introduces legislation to reform the upper…

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.

Some of the 92 now about to lose their seats can trace their family’s presence in the Lords back to the middle ages