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The Latest Breaking News from Lords

No 10 lukewarm over senior Tory Shaun Bailey’s peerage

Downing Street said it was up to the former London mayoral candidate whether he takes up his place in the Lords.

The Independent UK

MPs launch inquiry into Lords appointment process amid Boris Johnson honours list row

A WESTMINSTER committee has launched an inquiry into the House of Lords with MPs set to investigate the appointments process following calls for…

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer's U-turn on 'abolish the Lords' pledge panned across political spectrum

KEIR Starmer has been called out across the political spectrum after his party revealed plans to “appoint dozens” of new Labour peers to the…

The National (Scotland)

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Keir Starmer plans to stuff House of Lords with Labour peers

Labour leader wants to make sure he ‘gets programme through’, says party’s Lords chief

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer plans to 'appoint dozens of peers to level playing field'

LABOUR is planning to appoint dozens of peers to the House of Lords to help push Keir Starmer’s legislative agenda if elected at the next General…

The National (Scotland)

Lords appointments system set to be focus of new MP-led inquiry

The launch of the inquiry comes amid an ongoing row over Boris Johnson’s much-criticised resignation honours list.

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer ‘eyes dozens of new peers to aid Labour government’

Party reportedly looking to increase share in Lords, as Tory majority ‘could make life difficult’

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Controversial legacy Bill is human rights-compliant, says Heaton-Harris

The Bill is set to reach the report stage at the House of Lords on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Senior Tory tells Shaun Bailey to give back peerage after Partygate shame

Tobias Ellwood wants former mayoral candidate to ‘consider’ giving up gong

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on a PM’s patronage: Boris Johnson’s shameful honours list

Editorial: Reforming the House of Lords should begin by constraining a departing leader’s power to dish out lifetime awards to friends and cronies

The Guardian - UK

UK urged to protect environmental standards when EU laws scrapped

Green groups call on ministers to add environmental baseline to post-Brexit bill, fearing future laws could weaken protections

The Guardian - UK

Online safety bill: changes urged to allow access to social media data

Campaigners say bill in ‘serious peril’ of passing without powers to make platforms more transparent

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak faces another by-election after ex-Tory MP resigns following scandal

David Warburton is the latest MP to resign following Boris Johnson and Nigel Adams’ departure, while Nadine Dorries said she was going to quit over the fallout from the former prime minister’s resignation honours but is staying while she seeks to investigate how she was denied a seat in the…

Evening Standard

£342 a day and an average age of 70: Welcome to the House of Lords

IT’S a place where you can be paid £342 a day, more than half of your colleagues are over the age of 70 and the longest serving has clocked up an…

The National (Scotland)

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Worst of Westminster: Boris Johnson lies met with Douglas Ross silence

Good evening! This week has been packed with Westminster news, but one story in particular concerning a former prime minister has dominated the…

Daily Mirror

Landmark law to ban trophy hunting imports given seal of approval by the Lords

The legislation, which is currently going through the House of Lords, would block hunting tourists importing animal skins, severed heads and carcasses after shoots abroad

The Guardian - UK

One good can come from the Boris Johnson debacle: the will to look afresh at the House of Lords

We should consider whether PMs should have such power to shape the upper chamber, says former lord speaker Norman Fowler

The National (Scotland)

Call for House of Lords to be scrapped to end 'grubby horse-trading' for peerages

Campaigners have renewed calls to scrap the House of Lords following controversy over Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list...

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Suella Braverman faces legal action after forcing through anti-protest powers

Liberty writes to home secretary saying she acted unlawfully because parliament had rejected measures

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson told ‘months ago’ peerage for Nadine Dorries had been rejected

Former PM told by Cabinet Office she was not on the list of approved nominations as early as February

The National (Scotland)

'Shameful' Labour peers abstain from key vote on 'draconian' anti-protest laws

LABOUR peers in the House of Lords refused to back a motion to end the Government’s “draconian” anti-protest laws.

The Independent UK

Sunak hits back at Nadine Dorries as he denies believing only posh boys should be Lords

Boris Johnson loyalist accused prime minister of ‘duplicitously and cruelly’ blocking her from getting a peerage

The Guardian - UK

Tory peer ‘undermined and humiliated’ journalist, finds Lords commissioner

Exclusive: Rami Ranger apologises and promises to attend behaviour course after report into his conduct towards Poonam Joshi

The National (Scotland)

Tories at war as Nadine Dorries blasts 'sinister forces who denied my peerage'

THE Conservative Party is in the midst of a civil war as it prepares to fight three by-elections caused by the resignations of Boris Johnson and two…

Daily Mirror

Nadine Dorries blasts Rishi Sunak and top aide as 'privileged posh boys'

The furious ex-Cabinet Minister launched a blistering attack on the Prime Minister in the latest twist in the bitter row over Boris Johnson's resignation honours

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