Peers who do not participate enough in House of Lords face sack

Members of the House of Lords before the state opening of parliament last year. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

Labour plans to remove peers who do not contribute enough to the House of Lords and to press ahead with plans for a retirement age of 80 from the upper house.

Writing for the Telegraph, the leader of the House of Lords, Angela Smith, said a select committee would consider the next stage of Lords reform after the abolition of hereditary peers.