Ministers introduce plans to remove all hereditary peers from Lords

Members of the House of Lords at the state opening of parliament in November. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

The government is proposing to banish all remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords in the biggest shake-up of parliament in a quarter century.

The UK’s 92 remaining hereditary peers – who have inherited their titles from their parents – will lose their right to sit and vote in the upper chamber under proposals put forward by ministers on Thursday.