How Britain is Rejecting Hereditary Privilege with House of Lords Reform

Members of the aristocracy who have inherited their seats in the House of Lords are a quirk of the UK’s parliamentary system ...

Britain ousts hereditary peers from House of Lords

Britain’s House of Lords, the unelected upper chamber of Parliament, will no longer include hereditary peers under a bill ...

No Nobles Day: Britain's Parliament boots its last hereditary Lords after 700 years

Government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the change put an end to "an archaic and undemocratic principle." The removed ...
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Hereditary peers get the boot from UK's House of Lords

If the very name of the House of Lords implies its aristocratic history, modern Britain is finally letting go of inherited ...
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Hereditary nobles have sat in Britain's Parliament for centuries. Their time may be up

London — Like his ancestors for centuries, the Earl of Devon serves in Parliament, helping to make the laws of the land. But not for much longer. British lawmakers will vote Tuesday on a bill to strip ...

UK ends centuries-old hereditary seats from House of Lords

UK ends centuries-old hereditary seats from House of Lords - Lord True, the Conservatives’ shadow Lords leader, described the ...

Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes

The bill abolishes the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherit their titles through their families.

Britain votes to oust hereditary peers from its Upper House

The government called the measure “one of the biggest reforms to Parliament in a generation”. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.