Dining in the House of Lords canteen just after Labour came to power, one Labour adviser found themselves sitting opposite two Tory peers. In particular, the pair were fuming about the forthcoming abolition of hereditary peers. “Each time it is more or less the same people,” one Labour peer said. Every stage of the bill to abolish hereditary peers Lords has resulted in considerable disruption in the Lords, as well as demands in private meetings for compensation for removed peers. But the Tories will lose 44 hereditary peers at the end of the session in May.

Source: The Guardian January 03, 2026 15:17 UTC