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The Labour leader may not have the charisma, or the punchlines, but he has a secret weapon – sincerity

Only a fully elected second chamber will give us true democracy, says Green party peer Jenny Jones

Peers said they were raising a ‘big red flag’ and tough choices will be needed

The Independent revealed that Johnson gave a top job at energy consultancy firm to former aide Charlotte Owen

The MP is used to facing down hostility, from Tory attacks to racist bullying. But this year’s ‘humiliating’ treatment by her own party was different. She talks breakthroughs, battles and not backing down

Exclusive: Charlotte Owen has been made vice-president of green consultancy company Better Earth, whose co-chair is the former prime minister

Editorial: It has taken a few hundred years for British politics to rid itself of the hereditary principle. Better late than never

Gillian Merron tells Lords the goal of reducing rate of preterm births to 6%, which was set in 2019, may be changed

ANTI-MONARCHY campaigners have welcomed the introduction of a bill to scrap hereditary peers from the House of Lords but have called on reform to…

Perhaps it was because I watched it during the first week of lockdown, but I have a particular attachment to this BBC documentary on House of Lords reform, first aired in February 2000. It is a Michael Cockerell production, so you know it will be good, but it is even better than that.

The government committed before the general election to abolish the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords