Multiple-time Paralympic swimming medalist Chris Holmes is a member of the House of Lords, emphasizing diversity and ...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has called on the prime minister to allow him to appoint peers to the House of Lords. In a ...

You can’t demand seats in the Lords and still be an establishment rebel, Mr Farage - COMMENT: The Reform leader’s only ...

The 90-year-old UK-based political theorist signed a Memorandum of Understanding in this regard with the Vadodara-based ...

But there is a bigger scandal with the House of Lords, one that has been overlooked and which will persist even if Mr. Johnson’s appointments all turn out to be ethically aboveboard.

One such is the system of hereditary titles and male primogeniture in the upper parliamentary chamber, the House of Lords. Take Matthew Simon, born in 1955, the inheritor of the Barony of Wythenshawe.

The House of Lords is part of the UK Parliament. Also known as the Upper Chamber, it is independent from the House of Commons - where 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) debate and vote on new laws.

Yet the Lords, far from “ indefensible,” as Sir Keir once described it, is one of the last bastions of serious politics in Britain. Replacing it with an elected house, if the replacements are to be of ...

“The House of Lords,” it agrees, “has a reputation for the careful consideration of legislation.” It emphasises that there should be no change in its functions.

In the House as it is to-day, for example, there are some twenty-eight peers, such as Lords Morley, Lansdowne, Rosebery, and Crewe, whose whole life has been a training in statesmanship; there are ...