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I sit in the House of Lords – and here’s why getting rid of 92 hereditary peers won’t fix it

Only a fully elected second chamber will give us true democracy, says Green party peer Jenny Jones

The Guardian - UK

UK debt must be steered off unsustainable course, warns Lords committee

Peers said they were raising a ‘big red flag’ and tough choices will be needed

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson met with uranium lobbyist connected to new business partner while he was prime minister

The Independent revealed that Johnson gave a top job at energy consultancy firm to former aide Charlotte Owen

The Independent UK

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Diane Abbott on her standoff with Labour: ‘It was a question of who blinked first. And they did’

The MP is used to facing down hostility, from Tory attacks to racist bullying. But this year’s ‘humiliating’ treatment by her own party was different. She talks breakthroughs, battles and not backing down

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson firm gives Charlotte Owen top job after ex-PM made her UK’s youngest peer

Exclusive: Charlotte Owen has been made vice-president of green consultancy company Better Earth, whose co-chair is the former prime minister

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on the House of Lords: ending inherited power is the right thing to do

Editorial: It has taken a few hundred years for British politics to rid itself of the hereditary principle. Better late than never

The Guardian - UK

Target for cutting premature birthrate in England will not be met, minister says

Gillian Merron tells Lords the goal of reducing rate of preterm births to 6%, which was set in 2019, may be changed

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Anti-monarchy campaigners call on Lords reform to extend to royals

ANTI-MONARCHY campaigners have welcomed the introduction of a bill to scrap hereditary peers from the House of Lords but have called on reform to…

The National (Scotland)

OPINION - Keir Starmer parties like it's [House of Lords Act] 1999

Perhaps it was because I watched it during the first week of lockdown, but I have a particular attachment to this BBC documentary on House of Lords reform, first aired in February 2000. It is a Michael Cockerell production, so you know it will be good, but it is even better than that.

Evening Standard

Remaining hereditary peers to be kicked out of House of Lords within months

The government committed before the general election to abolish the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords

The Independent UK

UK Government set to bring in bill to remove hereditary peers from Lords

THE UK Government will begin the process of removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords, as it introduces legislation to reform the upper…

The National (Scotland)

UK Govt Moves To Oust Hereditary Peers From Upper House

The UK government on Thursday introduces legislation to axe seats in the House of Lords retained for hereditary lawmakers as it moves to reform parliament's unelected upper chamber.

International Business Times

Ministers introduce plans to remove all hereditary peers from Lords

Government’s bill would prevent the 92 remaining peers who inherited their titles from sitting in upper chamber

The Guardian - UK

From Earl of Devon to Duke of Norfolk: the hereditary peers set to lose place in Lords

Some of the 92 now about to lose their seats can trace their family’s presence in the Lords back to the middle ages

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Manor Lords publisher says game devs and big corpos don't get on because making games is "fundamentally unpredictable"

Hooded Horse's execs think self-publishing is a pretty good idea

The National (Scotland)

Ruth Davidson 'wouldn't say no' to David Cameron-style return to politics

RUTH Davidson has said she “wouldn’t say no” to going back into frontline politics via the Lords, in a similar way to David Cameron.

Evening Standard

100 Years Ago in Parliament: Row over cyclists, trams and police powers in London Traffic Bill

August 1, 1924 - MPs debate traffic congestion in London (sounds familiar) with Tories clashing with Ramsay MacDonald’s Labour government

The Guardian - UK

Proportional representation? The House of Lords is the best place to start

Letters: Former Labour MP Liz McInnes says a House of Lords elected by PR would address the democratic deficit at the heart of government. Plus a letter from Rosanne Bostock

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Peer accused of Islamophobia after claiming ‘radicals will take us over through power of the womb’

Exclusive: Leading Muslim groups are lodging official complaints to the House of Lords about Lord Pearson of Rannoch’s speech

The National (Scotland)

Scottish lords cost millions – yet some work fewer than one day in 10

SCOTTISH members of the House of Lords cost the taxpayer nearly £10 million over the last five years, The Ferret can reveal...

The Guardian - UK

At last, the chance to legalise assisted dying in the UK – and end the untold, unnecessary anguish

Tory MPs opposed to this human right have been swept away. On Friday in the Lords, a path towards choice will finally be set, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Assisted dying bill to be introduced into House of Lords

Keir Starmer under pressure to allow vote as private member’s bill to be introduced in upper chamber

The Guardian - UK

The last of the hereditary peers in the House of Lords

The Labour government has plans to end their ‘outdated and indefensible’ lawmaking position in the upper house

The Guardian - UK

Nige shows up for pomp of king’s speech, then jets off to US when the work starts

Clacton MP clearly had far more important things to do, like trying to boost his profile at the Republican convention

The National (Scotland)

'Affront': Anger as Labour water down Lords reforms in King's Speech

LABOUR have sparked anger after watering down pledges to reform the House of Lords – with Scottish representatives accusing the party of offering…

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