The Latest Breaking News from Lords

Perhaps it was because I watched it during the first week of lockdown, but I have a particular attachment to this BBC documentary on House of Lords reform, first aired in February 2000. It is a Michael Cockerell production, so you know it will be good, but it is even better than that.

The government committed before the general election to abolish the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords

THE UK Government will begin the process of removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords, as it introduces legislation to reform the upper…

The UK government on Thursday introduces legislation to axe seats in the House of Lords retained for hereditary lawmakers as it moves to reform parliament's unelected upper chamber.

Government’s bill would prevent the 92 remaining peers who inherited their titles from sitting in upper chamber

Some of the 92 now about to lose their seats can trace their family’s presence in the Lords back to the middle ages

Hooded Horse's execs think self-publishing is a pretty good idea

RUTH Davidson has said she “wouldn’t say no” to going back into frontline politics via the Lords, in a similar way to David Cameron.

August 1, 1924 - MPs debate traffic congestion in London (sounds familiar) with Tories clashing with Ramsay MacDonald’s Labour government

Letters: Former Labour MP Liz McInnes says a House of Lords elected by PR would address the democratic deficit at the heart of government. Plus a letter from Rosanne Bostock

Exclusive: Leading Muslim groups are lodging official complaints to the House of Lords about Lord Pearson of Rannoch’s speech