This third element (the House of Commons) only came to be based on universal manhood suffrage in 1918, and universal adult ...

Dozens handed life peerages in apparent concession, enabling their return to red benches ...

A law to reform the House of Lords is being introduced by the Labour government. The bill will remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers, whose presence in the Lords is described as "outdated and ...

Aristocrats sitting in the House of Lords have spoken of the “deep” personal offence they feel at the Government move to boot them out and have pleaded for a late reprieve against “the ruthless and ...

The House of Lords is, in many respects, an anomaly. Most mature democracies have a second parliamentary chamber, but relatively few of these are, like the House of Lords, unelected (though Canada and ...

Parliament has been formally prorogued, signalling a significant shift with the end of hereditary peers in the House of Lords and ending a tradition hundreds of years old. The formal announcement, ...

LONDON (AP) — Fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files has landed on the gilded wood and plush red benches of Britain’s House of Lords. Today in History: May 9, freighter slams into Tampa Bay bridge, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the House of Lords, ending a 700-year British political ...

IT IS THE peculiar fate of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, to be rarely in the headlines except when there are calls for its reform or abolition. Now is ...