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.

It comes as the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill moves a step closer to becoming law with its second reading in the ...

The new legislation has to pass through the Commons and the Lords before receiving ... is more representative of the UK. A ...

Sir Gavin told the Commons: “There’s a big opportunity here. There is an unfairness, there is an injustice that so many people of so many faiths, and so many people of no faith at all, see that there ...

The House of Commons is the lower house of Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster. Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks ...

The bill will now pass through other stages in the Commons before being passed to the House of Lords - where it could face fierce opposition. In the debate to rid Parliament of the remaining ...

The bill now heads to the House of Lords where it will undergo even more scrutiny, and challenges from pro-EU unelected peers. But political commentators said the bill's passing in the Commons was ...

The Scottish Greens want to ban peers from the House of Lords from serving as MSPs in the Scottish Parliament. The party says ...

Parliament's upper chamber faces major reform, starting with Labour's promise to remove remaining hereditary peers ...

Yes, Sir Keir Starmer has a whopping Commons majority ... that there's no consensus in parliament on House of Lords reform and probably never will be.

It comes as the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill moves a step closer to becoming law with its second reading in the Commons taking place on Tuesday. The landmark legislation, introduced last ...

Sir Gavin told the Commons: “There’s a big opportunity ... see that there are 26 bishops (in the House of Lords). “They are not reflective of the United Kingdom and not reflective of what ...