The Latest Breaking News from Lords

Rush is on to stop laws being lost as part of the ‘wash up’

General secretary of the TSSA rail union and supporter of Tony Blair who chaired the party conference after Labour’s 1997 victory

Baroness Fox praised The Independent for shining a light on the plight of IPP prisoners in a House of Lords debate

Some international passengers have to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) when changing planes at Heathrow

‘This requirement will place the UK at an immediate competitive disadvantage’ – Lord Foster of Bath

Ministers urged to ‘use all diplomatic efforts’ with Brussels to postpone demand for fingerprints and facial biometrics

Cross-party peers take up cause of ‘inhumane’ sentences highlighted by The Independent – but proposals fall short of resentencing

Kulveer Ranger resigns Tory whip after committee also recommends suspension from House of Lords for three weeks

The House of Lords Conduct Committee recommended that Lord Kulveer Ranger also be suspended from the House for three weeks

Most Britons don’t identify as religious, and would prefer to keep worship out of schools

Like a spectral invigilator, George Orwell is never far from our political discourse. Yesterday, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer dramatised respectively the sharp distinction he drew in a famous 1945 essay between nationalism and patriotism. The Prime Minister, for his part, finally ensured that his Rwanda bill will become…