The voters are an enigmatic bunch and what campaigning took place was invisible to those outside the red-carpeted confines of the House of Lords ... him of being "asleep in the back shop while ...

Ministers are still planning to force members of the House of Lords to retire at 80 despite the measure not being included in the King’s Speech. The Government introduced its first legislation ...

The catastrophic collapse in the opinion polls of support for the Prime Minister is undoubtedly due to his hypocrisy on ...

Currently, the House of Lords houses around 800 members, in stark comparison to the 650-seat House of Commons. Here we explore whether this us a transformative stride towards modernising British ...

The House of Lords, external is part of the UK Parliament. Also known as the Upper Chamber, it is independent from the House of Commons, external - where 650 Members of Parliament (MPs ...

Cohen co-wrote the forward to the report with former BBC governor and House of Lords member Baroness Ruth Deech. In it they write that while “honest mistakes” can happen while reporting ...

front benchers and committee members. And a much higher proportion contribute to speeches and amendment.” Conservative hereditary peer Lord Borwick, pictured in 2007, entered the House of Lords ...

There are more than 80 Liberal Democrat members of the House of Lords. We scrutinise legislation line by line, offering amendments to improve it, and work with other opposition groups and Government ...

The House of Lords has approximately 800 members referred to as 'peers' (the number of peers varies). Most peers have been appointed by the monarch on the advice of a Prime Minister, sometimes in ...

The House of Lords International Relations and Defence ... Sino-Russian strategic alignment has been recognised by NATO members. In a NATO communiqué published at the Washington Summit in early ...