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Hereditary peers evicted from the House of Lords
Members of the House of Lords gather in the chamber ahead of the King's Speech during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London, July 17, 2024
“At local level, it’s different."
PARLIAMENT has voted to evict the last of Britain’s hereditary peers from the House of Lords after more than seven centuries in occupation — but the bishops cling on.
Labour’s House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill overwhelmingly passed its third reading by 435 votes to 73 on Tuesday, consigning the principle — and the 92 places reserved for hereditary peers in the party’s 1999 effort at reform — to history.
The move forms the first stage in Labour’s proposals to reform the House of Lords.
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