Britain’s House of Lords, the unelected upper chamber of Parliament, will no longer include hereditary peers under a bill that gained final approval Tuesday night. Under the law, the remaining earls, ...

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Government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the change put an end to "an archaic and undemocratic principle." The removed aristocrats are 92 of the House of Lords' 800 members.

The "historic legislation" realised Labour's manifesto pledge to remove the right of all hereditary peers to sit and vote in the upper house.

The Tories are deciding which hereditary peers to keep after being offered 15 seats in a compromise deal.

Britain is ending the centuries-old tradition of hereditary aristocrats sitting in Parliament’s House of Lords ...

By Sam Tabahriti LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) - Britain's parliament has approved legislation to remove the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords, ending a centuries-old system of ...

The House of Lords has voted down an attempt to prevent the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) database from being used in facial recognition searches.

Centuries of British history are set to come to an end after a Bill was passed to kick the last hereditary peers out of the House of Lords. Peers passed the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill ...

The House of Lords passed the Hereditary Peers Bill on Tuesday evening, fulfilling a reform launched more than 25 years ago.

Legislation approved by the British parliament on March 10 has ensured the removal of the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords ...

-King Charles III reads the King's Speech, as Queen Camilla sits beside him during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords, London, ...