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Letters: David Kauders argues for a people’s council, Les Bright hopes fiscal concerns do not slow reform and David Milton proposes giving peerages to the highest bidder

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

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…

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

THE UK Government will begin the process of removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords, as it introduces legislation to reform the upper…

The UK government on Thursday introduces legislation to axe seats in the House of Lords retained for hereditary lawmakers as it moves to reform parliament's unelected upper chamber.

Government’s bill would prevent the 92 remaining peers who inherited their titles from sitting in upper chamber

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