Lord George Foulkes says the Russian’s peerage must be ‘looked at again’ after it emerges no formal rationale was given for the appointment

The government has been told on Monday by the House of Lords to curb disability and incapacity benefits as this is costing more than what is spent on the

Locals will 'take back control' of their buses with a bill to be debated by peers this week, Labour's long-promised ... The bill arrives at the House of Lords to be chewed over in committee ...

In 2011, Lord Glasman was introduced into the House of Lords and became a Labour life peer. According to The Spectator, Lord Glasman is the only figure from the Labour Party to receive an ...

FORMER Scottish Labour minister Margaret Curran has taken a seat in the House of Lords. The 66-year-old, who lost her Glasgow seat in the Commons at the 2015 election, had previously served as shadow Scottish secretary. She had previously been an MSP at Holyrood and held a number of posts within the Scottish executive.

Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords. The amendment has been tabled with the support of Humanists UK and it is expected that it will be cosponsored by

The Mayor of London recently wrote in a comment piece that "the spectre of a resurgent fascism haunts the West".

UK culture minister Lisa Nandy has accused some members of the Conservative opposition of trying to use a “wrecking amendment” to “kill off” the government bill that will introduce an independent regulator for men’s professional football in England.

Liz Truss’s former deputy prime minister Dame Therese Coffey from Lancashire has taken her seat in the House of Lords.

Former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor says he has never received an apology from Labour Lord Tom Watson for his role in promoting a fantasist's sick claims.

TV cameras broadcasting from the House of Lords chamber. Proceedings were televised on BBC1 and BBC2 for the first time on 23 January 1985 and footage is now available to watch online on the House of Lords YouTube channel.

The High Court found that 324,000 will see benefits cut by as much as £416 a month, with Labour plans for reform to the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) and shake up found to be "unlawful"