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 ...

Two members of the House of Lords, including a former army chief, have been suspended from the upper chamber after being found to have exploited their positions for financial gain. The suspensions ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three new Liberal Democrat appointments to the House of Lords have been announced today: former MP and Children’s Minister Sarah Teather, the party’s Chief Executive Mike Dixon and Ed Davey’s Chief of ...

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 ...

Nigel Farage sought to dent rising Tory morale last night by unveiling Reform UK’s latest defection from Kemi Badenoch’s party - a leading Conservative peer and party donor. Mr Farage announced that ...

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.

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 ...

Peers should now get behind Labour's massive overhaul of workers' rights that drags Britain into the 21st century, Peter Kyle has demanded. The Business Secretary urged the House of Lords to stop ...

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 ...