A selection of Victorian love letters written by the ... The Duke of Wellington, then leader of the House of Lords, was among the guests and he gave them the use of a property on his estate ...

LONDON — Britain’s House of Lords is bloated ... there aren’t enough seats on the red-upholstered benches in the Victorian-era Palace of Westminster for all the members’ bottoms.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is, the Victorian journalist (and editor of this newspaper) Walter Bagehot once observed, “to go and look at it”. However, as few know better than Sir ...

MPs have backed plans to get rid of all hereditary peers from the House of Lords. A bill making its way through Parliament would abolish the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherit their titles ...

Reform of the upper chamber is one of Keir Starmer’s most important tasks this parliament. By Will Dunn The House of Lords is in some ways similar to the Cresta Run, the toboggan track that has since ...

IT IS THE peculiar fate of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, to be rarely in the headlines except when there are calls for its reform or abolition.

By Mark Landler and Stephen Castle Reporting from London For the House of Lords, the unelected counterpart to the House of Commons, Wednesday could mark a rare moment in Britain’s politics ...