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The House of Lords has backed a move to block the expulsion of hereditary ... We now are debating a manifesto commitment from ...
The House of Lords has tried to block Labour’s ban on hereditary peers. On Wednesday, peers backed an amendment to the ...
“This is the best way to ensure that all qualifying workers benefit from the right guaranteed hours when they want them. “If ...
The Lords, whose powers Labour aims to curtail, would do Britons a service by amending — or even helping defeat — the bill. The House of Lords, which faces an uncertain future under Britain's Labour ...
Keir Starmer has not been the luckiest general. But, in one respect, he has bested Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington will ...
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, which has already been through the Commons, will abolish the 92 seats reserved for members of the upper chamber who are there by right of birth. The Bill ...
The House of Lords is very old, but not quite continuous. In 1649, shortly after the execution of King Charles I, the ...
NFU External Affairs Manager Scott Pepe explains which government Bills to watch and how the NFU will try and make steps to ...
A senior Labour member of the House of Lords has died while swimming in a river, local police have confirmed. Lord Lipsey, 77 ...
The Jo Cox Foundation has appointed the Labour Party’s former chief whip in the House of Lords Jan Royall as its next chair.
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Peers would be on dicey political ground if they tried to stop the bill passed by MPs – but they may run into problems over ...