Dozens of hereditary peers are set to lose their seats in the House of Lords, after the passage of a bill that will end a parliamentary role dating back hundreds of years. Peers passed the House of ...

Ministers are offering to create more members of the House of Lords than usual later this year, in a compromise that could allow some hereditary peers to keep their seats. The Conservatives have been ...

Dozens handed life peerages in apparent concession, enabling their return to red benches ...

The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill passed this week The end is nigh for hereditary peers, whose inherited right to sit in the House of Lords is set to be stripped from them after the passage ...

Parliament has been formally prorogued, signalling a significant shift with the end of hereditary peers in the House of Lords and ending a tradition hundreds of years old. The formal announcement, ...

LONDON(AP) — Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords. On Tuesday night members of the ...

Aristocrats sitting in the House of Lords have spoken of the “deep” personal offence they feel at the Government move to boot them out and have pleaded for a late reprieve against “the ruthless and ...

A law to reform the House of Lords is being introduced by the Labour government. The bill will remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers, whose presence in the Lords is described as "outdated and ...