MPs back end of House of Lords hereditary peers
MPs have backed plans to get rid of all hereditary peers from the House of Lords.A bill making its way through Parliament ...
If Starmer has no need of hereditary peers, we must remove bishops too
Time flies when you finally get into Government. After all, it has been mere months since Sir Keir Starmer was positioning ...
Keir Starmer top ally hails axing of hereditary peers as 'biggest step in Lords reform for a long time'
Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden stressed MPs had backed the move and it was now down to peers to do the same ...
Morning Star2d
Hereditary peers evicted from the House of Lords
Labour’s House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill overwhelmingly passed its third reading by 435 votes to 73 on Tuesday, consigning the principle — and the 92 places reserved for hereditary peers in the ...
Hereditary peer compares Starmer to China’s Xi as MPs vote to abolish bloodline members
Labour bill has enraged some hereditary peers, but was also criticised by other lords for failing to go far enough ...
MPs to consider call to remove Church of England bishops from House of Lords
MPs are to consider calls to remove the Church of England bishops from the House of Lords and introduce a mandatory ...
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House of Lords reforms must address bishops, say peers
Cross party support expressed for abolishing the bishops' bench entirely in debate on reforming the House of Lords ...
Church Times1d
MPs reject amendment to boot bishops from the House of Lords
MEMBERS of Parliament have voted to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords, but rejected an amendment from the ...
SNP MP calls for House of Lords to be abolished
Donors and “cronies” should be removed from the House of Lords, an SNP MP has said, as he called for the upper chamber to be ...
Morning Star3d
Axing of hereditary peers ‘essential,’ says Labour
EVICTING the last remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords is “essential,” a Labour minister insisted today. Cabinet Office Minister Ellie Reeves made the remarks as she moved the third ...
London Evening Standard3d
MPs to consider call to remove Church of England bishops from House of Lords
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill seeks to deliver on Labour’s commitment to bring about an “immediate modernisation” by abolishing the 92 seats reserved for peers who are there by ...