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The House of Lords has voted to remove the proposed day one protection from unfair dismissal in the Employment Rights Bill.
A search for a fresh design team to support the Palace of Westminster Restoration and Renewal Programme is due to launch next ...
Nigel Farage has called on Keir Starmer to let him nominate some Reform UK members to join the House of Lords.But a video ...
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has called on the prime minister to allow him to appoint peers to the House of Lords. In a ...
Multiple-time Paralympic swimming medalist Chris Holmes is a member of the House of Lords, emphasizing diversity and ...
The 90-year-old UK-based political theorist signed a Memorandum of Understanding in this regard with the Vadodara-based ...
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.
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.
“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 ...
The House of Lords is composed of lords spiritual and lords temporal. As this body is now constituted, the lords spiritual are two archbishops, twenty-four bishops, and four Irish representative ...