The Latest Breaking News from the House of Lords

Labour backbench MP Kim Leadbeater has introduced a bill in the House of Commons that aims to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales.

A new bill aiming to legalize assisted dying in Britain is set to be introduced in Parliament on Wednesday, marking the first time in nearly a decade that lawmakers will debate allowing doctors to help end people’s lives after previous court challenges to change the law failed

The bill is expected to have strict eligibility criteria and is seen as more likely to succeed than an attempt in 2015

Assisted suicide is banned in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with a maximum prison sentence of 14 years

LABOUR’S watered-down plans to reform the House of Lords have passed their first parliamentary hurdle.

British lawmakers are set to vote on a bill to remove hereditary aristocrats from the House of Lords, a move seen as modernizing Parliament and ending an o...

The second reading of the House of Lords Bill takes place on Tuesday

British lawmakers are voting on a bill to strip hereditary aristocrats of the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords after more than 700 years

As the prime minister said himself in 2020, what it really requires is proper representation from the regions and nations. Where’s that conviction now?, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The hereditary peers aren’t beholden to political patronage; they’re a unique part of the constitution.

THE SNP will look to push the UK Government to go beyond its plans to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords and instead abolish it…