Hereditary peers have left the chamber for the final time ...

Part of the State Opening of Parliament, the King's speech sets out the government's political agenda.

LONDON (AP) — Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords. On Tuesday night members of the ...

The government was right to abolish hereditary peers, but it would be a mistake to lose the custodians of the memories of ...

A small group in the House of Lords has proposed hundreds of amendments that are helping stymie a bill that was meant to legalize medically assisted death for the terminally ill.

The House of Lords is, in many respects, an anomaly. Most mature democracies have a second parliamentary chamber, but relatively few of these are, like the House of Lords, unelected (though Canada and ...

LONDON — Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords. On Tuesday night members of the upper ...

LONDON (AP) — Fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files has landed on the gilded wood and plush red benches of Britain’s House of Lords. UAE to sink its OPEC membership Decision by the UAE to leave OPEC ...

IT IS THE peculiar fate of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, to be rarely in the headlines except when there are calls for its reform or abolition. Now is ...