Should the House of Lords be Reformed? The bill to remove all 88 hereditary peers from the House of Lords is making its way through the House of Lords itself, and their removal is now imminent. But while we are finally set... Posted 17 Jul 2025
A quarter of a million voices are calling for House of Lords reform We have hit a significant milestone in our campaign to reform the House of Lords: over a quarter of a million people have now signed our petition calling for the second chamber of our Parliament... Posted 26 Jun 2025
Rishi Sunak’s resignation peerages will do nothing to help collapsing trust in politics Ten months after the last government ended, it is still able to stuff yet more peers into the grossly oversized House of Lords. On Friday, Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list was published, ennobling seven Conservative... Posted 15 Apr 2025
Leading lord makes open threat to government in last ditch attempt to save hereditary peers For weeks now we have watched the bill to remove the 88 remaining hereditary peers make slow progress through the House of Lords. Only last week did the legislation finish committee stage, but not before... Posted 08 Apr 2025
House of Lords spends forty hours debating themselves Last night at 10.20PM, the committee of the whole House of Lords on the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill was finally adjourned. There were five days of committee, close to 150 amendments put forward,... Posted 02 Apr 2025
It’s not just hereditary peers that are ‘hard to justify’ – It’s the whole unelected chamber Before Labour won the 2024 general election, the Labour leader in the House of Lords hinted that if Labour were to take power, we could finally see an end to the 92 hereditary peers in... Posted 30 Mar 2025
‘Procedural shenanigans’ as peers debate their own reform The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill is being debated again this week in the House of Lords. This bill, as the name suggests, seeks to remove the last 92 hereditary Lords from the second... Posted 11 Mar 2025
How are peers appointed to the House of Lords? The House of Lords is the second chamber of our Parliament. Before bills become laws, they must pass through the House of Lords, and Lords themselves play a key role in scrutinising public policy. That... Posted 29 Jan 2025
The Commons versus the Lords: What’s the difference? Our parliament is made up of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, but do we really need two chambers? It can be tempting to see it as pointless duplication, but the colour... Posted 04 Nov 2024
Hereditary Peers: Thank you for your contribution, and goodnight Last night, the first debate of the Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill happened in the House of Commons. The Bill, if passed, will remove the remaining 92 Peers who sit in our House of Lords purely... Posted 16 Oct 2024