On average the House of Lords sits for 150 days a year, resulting in a take-home amount of £55,650, which they receive tax-free.

Keir Starmer’s Government must seize a “once in a generation opportunity” to properly reform the House of Lords, a leading constitutional scholar has told Byline Times.

Generally speaking, you get one chance for Lords reform every 30 to 40 years. There was a Parliament Act in 1911 and another ...

The nine Labour MPs now backing the call, first made by Mr Corbyn last month, are Diane Abbott, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, ...

Members of the House of Lords are talking about themselves “to destruction” amid a proposed law to oust hereditary peers, Parliament has heard. Labour peer Lord Grocott, who has long ...

The Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, SNP, Scottish Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and Scottish Greens have all adopted the ...

Lord Richard Newby is the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords ... of being in the Lords. The Lords’ greatest strength is its role in scrutinising legislation. The Commons, often ...

Deputy Lords speaker Viscount Colville could be heard saying: “The house will adjourn for five minutes while this chaos calms down.” Labour whip Baroness Twycross was speaking when the protest ...

Protesters have disrupted the House of Lords with chants calling for the abolishment ... Baroness Twycross, a Labour peer, looked bemused as the white leaflets began to fall around her.

The House was adjourned for a short time as the demonstrators were escorted out. Screen grab of members of the House of Lords looking ... delivers on a promise in Labour’s election manifesto ...