Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords. The ...
Lord George Foulkes says the Russian’s peerage must be ‘looked at again’ after it emerges no formal rationale was given for ...
FORMER Scottish Labour minister Margaret Curran has taken a seat in the House of Lords. The 66-year-old, who lost her Glasgow seat in the Commons at the 2015 election, had previously served as shadow ...
UK culture minister Lisa Nandy has accused some members of the Conservative opposition of trying to use a “wrecking amendment ...
The government has been told on Monday by the House of Lords to curb disability and incapacity benefits as this is costing more than what is spent on the ...
The Mayor of London recently wrote in a comment piece that "the spectre of a resurgent fascism haunts the West".
Former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor says he has never received an apology from Labour Lord Tom Watson for his role in ...
Labour’s rental reforms are heading to the House of Lords after the legislation passed its report ... Bill – despite a promise to scrap no-fault evictions appearing in the party’s 2019 manifesto – ...
As such, it was not part of the Labour Party manifesto on which they were elected in July. That means the bill does not fall under a longstanding convention that dictates the unelected House of Lords ...
The intervention comes after prime minister Sir Keir Starmer told reporters during a recent visit to Ukraine that he would be “ruthless” in cutting benefits if needed to balance government spending. A ...