A law to reform the House of Lords is being introduced by the Labour government. The bill will remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers, whose presence in the Lords is described as "outdated and ...

This third element (the House of Commons) only came to be based on universal manhood suffrage in 1918, and universal adult ...

Ceremonial event marks start of new parliamentary year, and outlines government policies and proposed legislation ...

The last remaining hereditary peers have sat for the final time ever in the House of Lords. Parliament was formally prorogued on Wednesday afternoon, marking the end of hereditary peers in the upper ...

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 ...

The House of Lords, Britain’s Upper House, had daringly (and heavily) amended Labor’s bill to nationalize transport (TIME, May 12), which the House of Commons had passed. Last week, the Commons ...

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 ...

King Charles has delivered the King's Speech in the House of Lords, setting out the government's planned new laws as part of the State Opening of Parliament. The speech marks the start of the new ...

The State Opening of Parliament is a grand royal occasion, an important part of the King's job and is all about the relationship between the UK monarch and parliament. Find out more here.