The UK prides itself on democracy — yet one of its most powerful institutions isn’t elected at all. The House of Lords is made up of life appointees, hereditary peers, and senior bishops, many serving ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Labour MP who introduced the UK assisted dying bill has criticised the “very slow” progress of the ...
It was more than a year ago that MPs first gave their backing to proposed legislation which would introduce assisted dying in England and Wales, in an historic House of Commons vote. In its current ...
The upcoming sequel to Lords of the Fallen (no, not that one) just had its gameplay premiere at The Game Awards. If you're a fan of the series' heavier take on Soulslike gameplay, oodles of blood, and ...
There must be some irony, if not perhaps a hint of spite, in the fact that the House of Lords is causing the government some legislative difficulty just as the very last of the hereditary peers are ...
LONDON — When a job for life beckons, principles have a way of disappearing. Keir Starmer has given 25 close allies an early Christmas present, appointing them to Britain’s unelected House of Lords.
For many, the repeated image of the friends, allies and favoured former colleagues of the nation's leaders being routinely stuffed into the upper chamber of parliament is an unsavoury one at the best ...
In his latest batch of appointments to the Lords, Sir Keir announced a fresh list of 25 Labour peerages as he gave jobs for life to cronies and ex-advisers. There were also five nominations for ...
The report, entitled The Building Safety Regulator: Building a Better Regulator, recommends that the BSR gives better training to its multidisciplinary teams, introduces a new streamlined process for ...
Labour's flagship law on workers' rights faces continuing deadlock after the House of Lords inflicted another defeat on the government. The setback comes just two weeks after ministers said they had ...
Labour says appointments needed to balance upper house, and chooses former advisers to No 10 and the chancellor Keir Starmer has appointed 25 Labour peers including a number of former senior ...
Keir Starmer has appointed more than two dozen new peers as he seeks to boost Labour’s numbers in the House of Lords. Iceland boss Richard Walker, who abandoned the Tories for Labour, was named in a ...
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