Labour would abolish the House of Lords and replace it with a "new, reformed upper chamber", the party has confirmed to the BBC. Sir Keir Starmer told Labour peers that he wanted to strip ...

Sir Keir Starmer, previous PM Gordon Brown and several government ministers were among those at the service at Hull Minister.

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

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE - A new parliamentary caucus has been set up to ensure any new bills from Labour don't clamp down on free speech.

Sir Keir Starmer will appoint around 30 new Labour peers on Thursday in a bid to tilt the power balance in the House of Lords towards his party, The Telegraph can reveal. Sue Gray, Sir Keir’s ...

Peers in the House of Lords have rallied together in a cross-party effort to force a number of amendments into the government ...

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 ...

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

Alastair Campbell, former Labour head of communications in the Tony Blair government, says that Prescott had a combative ...