The Latest Breaking News from Lords

UK’s Rwanda bill is a ‘step towards totalitarianism’, says Lord Carlile

Leading barrister signals House of Lords plans to revise bill, saying government is ‘elevating itself above the law’

The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2024

The Rwanda bill passing could be just the start of Sunak’s troubles

Problems in the Lords, further legal challenges and the alienation of centrist MPs and voters may await the prime minister

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2024

Champagne worth £90,000 bought in House of Lords last year, FoI data shows

Sales of 1,589 bottles prove Lords is ‘archaic and out of touch’ during cost of living crisis, says the SNP

The Guardian - UK · Jan 2, 2024

Independent readers call for Baroness Mone to be stripped of her title following PPE scandal

Have your say: Readers were almost unanimous in their calls to remove Baroness Mone from the House of Lords

The Independent UK · Dec 22, 2023

Charlotte Owen parties with Boris Johnson's wife

The former PM made Owen the youngest lift peer in history

Evening Standard · Dec 21, 2023

Outgoing Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford slams House of Lords: 'I don't want to become a peer'

The Welsh Labour leader criticised the unelected Upper House of Parliament as a 'democratic anachronism'

Evening Standard · Dec 20, 2023

Michelle Mone: inside the extraordinary rise and catastrophic fall of the 'lying baroness'

A firm linked to Michelle Mone has just been ordered to pay back nearly £122m after breaching PPE contracts. Katie Strick reports on her undoing

Evening Standard · Dec 20, 2023

Michael Gove reveals he has cooperated with criminal probe into Michelle Mone scandal

Gove says he wants to see ‘justice served’ – as Baroness Mone lashes out again at Tory ministers

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2023

OPINION - Take away her title and ban her from the Lords, Michelle Mone is an embarrassment to us all

Baroness Mone. Pause, and let the words sink in. The blonde business titan who established the Ultimo bra brand — for which her own impressive embonpoint was the best advertisement — would not once have been an obvious candidate for the Lords. But it says a good deal about the…

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2023

Nadine Dorries wades into Michelle Mone row: ‘Why was she made a peer in the first place?’

Ms Dorries, who quit as an MP in protest at her own failure to secure a peerage, said the biggest question about Baroness Mone was ‘why she was made a peer at all’

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2023