A proposed new law to reform the House of Lords appointments process would tackle cronyism and “enhance public trust”, ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A proposed new law to reform the House of Lords appointments process would tackle cronyism and "enhance public trust", UK Parliament heard. Conservative peer Philip Norton argued that the reputation ...