Hereditary peers have left the chamber for the final time ...

The King's Speech is given by the monarch in his constitutional role as the UK head of state. However, the speech is actually ...

Hereditary peers have been praised for bringing an “independence of mind” to the House of Lords before being abolished by Sir Keir Starmer this week. Lord Forsyth, the upper chamber’s Speaker, said ...

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 ...

The House of Lords is, in many respects, an anomaly. Most mature democracies have a second parliamentary chamber, but relatively few of these are, like the House of Lords, unelected (though Canada and ...

The government was right to abolish hereditary peers, but it would be a mistake to lose the custodians of the memories of ...

LONDON — 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 upper ...

LONDON (AP) — Fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files has landed on the gilded wood and plush red benches of Britain’s House of Lords. UAE to sink its OPEC membership Decision by the UAE to leave OPEC ...

IT IS THE peculiar fate of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, to be rarely in the headlines except when there are calls for its reform or abolition. Now is ...