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Controversial legacy Bill is human rights-compliant, says Heaton-Harris

The Bill is set to reach the report stage at the House of Lords on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Peers urged to reject Northern Ireland legacy bill

Amnesty International said no amendments can save the ‘deeply damaging’ bill.

The Independent UK

Carol Vorderman backs calls to protect children in the metaverse

Two thirds of young people have already accessed virtual reality

Wales Online

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The people who rejected or gave back their honours including Prince Philip, two Beatles, and Michael Sheen

Some big-name celebrities have turned down knighthoods and peerages for a number of reasons

Wales Online

The Guardian view on a PM’s patronage: Boris Johnson’s shameful honours list

Editorial: Reforming the House of Lords should begin by constraining a departing leader’s power to dish out lifetime awards to friends and cronies

The Guardian - UK

Who is Charlotte Owen and why is she getting a peerage?

The 29-year-old aide among controversial names on Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list

The Independent UK

Honours row grows after claim Charlotte Owen ‘worked as maternity cover’

The youngest life peer in UK history at the age of 29, the former assistant to Boris Johnson was covering maternity leave in his office

The Guardian - UK

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£342 a day and an average age of 70: Welcome to the House of Lords

IT’S a place where you can be paid £342 a day, more than half of your colleagues are over the age of 70 and the longest serving has clocked up an…

The National (Scotland)

'The Metropolitan Police must act on nasty video from Partygate gathering'

Bombshell footage exclusively shared by us reveals Tory staffers drinking, dancing and celebrating in close quarters – enjoying each others’ company as the rest of the country stayed at home

Daily Mirror

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville: Westminster’s Renaissance man

In the course of an extraordinary political career, he filled a multitude of roles with a style and gravitas that marked him out as a true gentleman and a consummate negotiator

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries wrongly claims Boris Johnson was ‘top of his year’ at university

Dorries said she was quitting ‘with immediate effect’ last Friday after a bust-up with Mr Sunak over Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries wrongly claims Boris Johnson was ‘top of his year’ at university

Dorries said she was quitting ‘with immediate effect’ last Friday after a bust-up with Mr Sunak over Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list

The Independent UK

Landmark law to ban trophy hunting imports given seal of approval by the Lords

The legislation, which is currently going through the House of Lords, would block hunting tourists importing animal skins, severed heads and carcasses after shoots abroad

Daily Mirror

As the U.S. and democracies worldwide face threats, Britain shows how to fight back

With democracy under siege around the world, the U.K. offers a glimmer of hope. Despite attacks from former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Britain's institutions resisted.

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The Independent UK

Charlotte Owen: Allies rally around Boris Johnson aide handed youngest life peer

A No 10 insider said her peerage ‘is one of the most strange and hardest to explain’

The Independent UK

Government ‘showing lack of compassion in language about migrants’

Former health minister Lord Kamall said there is ‘nothing wrong with wanting to be an economic migrant’ as he spoke in the House of Lords.

The National (Scotland)

Call for House of Lords to be scrapped to end 'grubby horse-trading' for peerages

Campaigners have renewed calls to scrap the House of Lords following controversy over Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list...

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries vows to hold Rishi Sunak to ransom over resignation

Dorries ‘barely seen in Commons for six months’, says Sunak ally – as Tories say she must quit now

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The Independent UK

Starmer claims Sunak ‘weak’ for failing to block Boris Johnson’s honours list

The pair clashed at PMQs after several days of Tory infighting.

The National (Scotland)

Rishi Sunak told off by Speaker for swipe at Labour's peerages choice

RISHI Sunak has been told off in the House of Commons after criticising Labour's previous peerage nominations.

The Independent UK

Police get powers to restrict protests causing ‘more than minor delay’ after bid to block law fails

Liberty threatens legal action against Suella Braverman for ‘legislation she had no power to create’

The National (Scotland)

'Shameful' Labour peers abstain from key vote on 'draconian' anti-protest laws

LABOUR peers in the House of Lords refused to back a motion to end the Government’s “draconian” anti-protest laws.

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries ‘to delay resignation until summer recess’ in fresh headache for Sunak

‘We don’t want to wait around, we want to get on with these things,’ a Tory source said

The National (Scotland)

Douglas Ross left red-faced defending Boris Johnson's honours list

Ross has weighed in on the debate over Johnson's honours and defended his former boss.

The Independent UK

Sunak hits back at Nadine Dorries as he denies believing only posh boys should be Lords

Boris Johnson loyalist accused prime minister of ‘duplicitously and cruelly’ blocking her from getting a peerage

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