The Latest Breaking News from Lords

The Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill aims to secure London Zoo’s future in Regent’s Park

Rush is on to stop laws being lost as part of the ‘wash up’

Ministers urged to ‘use all diplomatic efforts’ with Brussels to postpone demand for fingerprints and facial biometrics

Cross-party peers take up cause of ‘inhumane’ sentences highlighted by The Independent – but proposals fall short of resentencing

Kulveer Ranger resigns Tory whip after committee also recommends suspension from House of Lords for three weeks

The House of Lords Conduct Committee recommended that Lord Kulveer Ranger also be suspended from the House for three weeks

Most Britons don’t identify as religious, and would prefer to keep worship out of schools

Like a spectral invigilator, George Orwell is never far from our political discourse. Yesterday, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer dramatised respectively the sharp distinction he drew in a famous 1945 essay between nationalism and patriotism. The Prime Minister, for his part, finally ensured that his Rwanda bill will become…

Finally, the Rwanda Bill has got through Parliament. After interminable back and forth between Commons and Lords, and the expenditure of endless political energy and goodwill, the Prime Minister has got his way. Failed asylum seekers may now be sent to Rwanda, legal challenges allowing. But was it really worth…