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On average the House of Lords sits for 150 days a year, resulting in a take-home amount of £55,650, which they receive ...
A court has rejected businessman Sir Philip Green's complaint about being named in Parliament in relation to misconduct ...
Deputy Lords speaker Viscount Colville could be heard saying: “The house will adjourn for five minutes while this chaos calms down.” Labour whip Baroness Twycross was speaking when the protest ...
The House of Lords (Peerage Nominations ... trade unionists or had worked for the Labour Party. Lord Norton also hinted that one reason Holac needs to be given more powers is because Boris ...
Sir Keir Starmer's first five years as Labour Party leader have seen dramatic highs and lows - but the next five will perhaps ...
Protesters have disrupted the House of Lords with chants calling for the abolishment ... Baroness Twycross, a Labour peer, looked bemused as the white leaflets began to fall around her.
Members of the House of Lords are talking about themselves “to destruction” amid a proposed law to oust hereditary peers, Parliament has heard. Labour peer Lord Grocott, who has long ...
Dan Norris, a lawmaker who won a seat in Parliament last year, was swiftly suspended from Britain’s governing party.
Ministers say they are in the process of determining which of 19 safety systems required for models sold in Europe since last ...
A Labour grandee has said the government must decide “whose side” it is on after US president imposed a blanket 10 per cent ...
Lord Richard Newby is the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords ... of being in the Lords. The Lords’ greatest strength is its role in scrutinising legislation. The Commons, often ...