The Latest Breaking News from House of Lords

The police, crime, sentencing and courts bill has become law after an extended period of back and forth between the House of Commons and House of Lords. From its conception, the bill has been extremely controversial, particularly because of the increased powers it hands to police to stop protests.

THE Conservative party have been accused of making an “authoritarian power grab” of the Electoral Commission, after the government passed a new…

Poorer and northern pensioners in England will be forced to pay more than Boris Johnson's original plan - after he U-turned and hammered them with extra costs

The Government is trying to ram contentious immigration and asylum reforms through Parliament before the end of the session

In today’s newsletter: Archie Bland and Nimo Omer speak to MPs and peers about the toxic environment for women in parliament

Labour calls plan ‘extortionate, unworkable and profoundly un-British’

Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch alive today, but at age 96, she is also the oldest monarch in history.

Lord Bew, who chairs the House of Lords Appointments Committee (HOLAC), said while security services provided information on Lord Lebedev, they did issue a "warning" against appointing him to the upper chamber

UN Refugee Agency says asylum seekers who steer dinghies for no financial gain ‘are not smugglers and should not be prosecuted as such’