The Latest Breaking News from the House of Lords

Letters: Dr Sarah Davies, Sarah McCulloch, Jean Farrer and Charlie King respond to articles on the progress of the bill and the role of hospices

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

Hertfordshire University expert Dr Claudia Carr said Scotland could be viewed as having a ‘more positive climate’ for assisted dying.

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

The government is proposing a change in the law on parental child abduction. The crime and policing bill, under consideration in parliament, would make it a crime for a parent to take their child on holiday and then not return them at the end of the agreed holiday period. This…

Lord Evans of Watford and other directors of investment firm deny claims made in lawsuits they say are ‘meritless’

Angela Rayner drops plan to force earlier implementation after talks, says source, with start date to be announced in Commons

The new Data (Use and Access) Act, which criminalises intimate image abuse, is a huge victory won fast in a space where progress is often glacially slow

Labour MP Dame Meg Hillier, a strong opponent of the Bill, branded the emergence of a leaked policy document from 2023 ‘hugely disappointing’.

Exclusive: Former union bosses and Labour staffers on list as prime minister aims to balance chamber

Palliative care is deeply underfunded and unequal. Assisted dying cannot go ahead until politicians right that wrong, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown