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Upper house of the UK Parliament
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🇺🇸 Keir Starmer set to make Sadiq Khan a lordMove would allow London mayor to take cabinet role, as prime minister tries to shore up position...
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🇬🇧 House of Lords push for Australian-style social media ban for under-16s<p>Peers, in vote of 266 to 141, reject Keir Starmer’s proposals for public consultation to decide if social media ban should be introduced in UK</p><...
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🇬🇧 Evgeny Lebedev and Ian Botham have lowest Lords attendance, records show<p>Figures seen by the Guardian show the two peers each attended just 1.12% of sessions in past four years</p><p>Evgeny Lebedev’s longstanding commitm...
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🇬🇧 House of Lords has ‘signed its own death warrant’ by stalling assisted dying bill, says MP<p>Kim Leadbeater joins protest against delaying of bill to allow assisted dying in the UK and says people are ‘extremely angry’</p><p>The House of Lo...
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🇬🇧 Lords vote to back clause pardoning women convicted over illegal abortions<p>Peers’ decision welcomed as ‘landmark moment’ after attempt to strike out amendment is defeated</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/...
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🇬🇧 Doomed hereditary peers spy chance to stay in the LordsThe Tories are deciding which hereditary peers to keep after being offered 15 seats in a compromise deal....
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🇬🇧 So long, hereditary peers – but the Lords is still full of absurd anachronisms | Polly Toynbee<p>Two-thirds of voters want an elected second chamber. The government needs a radical legacy: it should use its rare majority for this</p><p>Goodbye ...
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🇺🇸 Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 yearsCenturies of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the unelected House of Lor...
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🇬🇧 Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passesThe bill abolishes the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherit their titles through their families....
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🇬🇧 Hereditary peers to lose their seats in the House of Lords<p>Upper chamber accepts final draft of bill, which offers life peerages to some of those who would otherwise be removed</p><p>Hereditary peerages wil...
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🇬🇧 Tory peer to leave House of Lords after investigation finds he breached standards over Covid PPE deals<p>Lord Chadlington introduced government to supplier in which he had financial interest in 2020</p><p>The Conservative peer Peter Gummer has said he ...
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🇬🇧 Assisted dying on Welsh NHS a step closer as Senedd votes in favourIn major vote Senedd backs legislation which could allow for terminally ill people to end their lives....
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🇺🇸 The Epstein files rattle the age-old foundations of Britain's House of LordsFallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files has landed on the gilded wood and plush red benches of Britain's House of Lords....
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