The Latest Breaking News from Lords

Kim Leadbeater warns 1,150 Lords amendments are ‘unnecessary’ and designed to run down the clock

Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer promised to bring meaningful reform to the House of Lords. He is failing to introduce it

Health secretary admitted to being ‘frustrated’ with approach to governing in interview

Labour says appointments needed to balance upper house, and chooses former advisers to No 10 and the chancellor

PM announces 25 new members of the House of Lords, including his former director of communications

Sir Keir Starmer is introducing new Labour peers as he aims to rebalance the Tory majority in the Lords, and see off further challenges to his plans.

Lord Dannatt will be barred from the Lords for four months while Lord Evans of Watford will be suspended for five months

The party said Mr Walker is a committed champion for families dealing with the cost of living.

It is hard to miss James Orr — with his slicked-back mane of blond hair, booming voice and all the confidence of a Wykehamist and an Oxford Balliol graduate, he could easily play the quintessential stage Englishman in a stage adaptation of Agatha Christie. A hybrid of academic and ideologue,…