A former Bristol MP and shadow minister has taken her seat in the House of Lords after being awarded a life peerage. Thangam ...

Campaigner Lord Grocott urged colleagues to move faster in scrutinising legislation set to oust hereditary peers.

A FORMER Labour MP who has taken a seat in the House of Lords has been called out after she previously said the institution ...

A minority of MPs in the ruling Labour Party are feeling mutinous — but there’s a sharp divide among its newest members.

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “stuffing” the House of Lords with his allies at the same time as attempting to abolish ...

“The House of Lords is indefensible.” So said Keir Starmer in December 2022, endorsing proposals drawn up by his predecessor ...

Trust brought down Boris Johnson and the last Conservative Government. If Labour doesn’t start to rebuild trust, and soon, ...

Baroness Angela Smith said Conservative peers had threatened to 'wear her down' by giving long-winded speeches and laying ...

The Labour Party has presided over many acts of constitutional vandalism down the years and the removal of the remaining 92 hereditary peers from the House of Lords represents another ill-judged ...

Labour gave the House of Lords watchdog less than two days to vet ... new minister for investment - and subsequently made a Labour Party peer a month later. The revelation, first reported by ...

But he said he felt Baroness Smith of Basildon, the Labour Lords leader, was “a brick wall” when it came to cross-party discussions. The simmering discontent from all sides of the House of ...

Baroness Debbonaire of De Beauvoir Town in the London Borough of Hackney is the second Bristol politician to enter the Lords in recent weeks [Reuters] 35,898 people played the daily Crossword ...