The Latest Breaking News from Lords

Baroness Mone claims key departments knew about her links to PPE Medpro ‘from the beginning’ after the PM said he was taking allegations against her ‘very seriously’

PM’s comments come as Labour calls for Commons statement about Tory peer who admits lying to media over links to PPE firm

Baroness Michelle Mone insists ministers knew about her involvement as she faces calls to leave the House of Lords

Conservative peer made multiple denials of any association between her and PPE Medpro

FORMER Tory cabinet minister Rory Stewart has said he would serve in a Labour government led by Keir Starmer.

Foreign secretary tells Lords committee that Brexit has enabled UK to be ‘big enough to matter, but small enough to be nimble’

Watch as David Cameron is questioned for the first time as foreign secretary in front of a Lords committee on Thursday, 14 December.

Editorial: An overly prescriptive and narrow curriculum is failing too many pupils at English schools

The legislative process in Britain consists of a series of discrete stages, each with its own purpose and function. A bill’s second reading is the discussion of, and vote on, the principle of the legislation. As Erskine May, the so-called bible of parliamentary procedure, puts it: “Its whole principle is…

Archer continues his rehabilitation from the latest setback in his right elbow

Lords report says there is too much learning by rote and many key Tory changes should be reversed