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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Abbie Llewelyn

Suspension of hereditary peer by-elections extended as aristocrats face removal

The House of Lords currently has 85 sitting hereditary peers (Parliament TV/PA) - (PA Media)

The suspension of hereditary peer by-elections has been extended as legislation to expel those in the House of Lords by right of birth moves through its final stages.

The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill is set to remove the right of bloodline peers to sit and vote in the upper chamber.

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