US EditionUK ends centuries-old hereditary seats in parliament upper chamber
Up to 92 hereditary peers will lose their seats, ending a centuries-old tradition and fulfilling a key manifesto pledge by Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government.
- On March 10, Parliament cleared a bill to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords, ending a centuries-old system and completing the bill's passage through Parliament.
- Tony Blair's 1999 reforms removed more than 600 hereditary peers, leaving a temporary compromise, and it took 25 years before Prime Minister Keir Starmer introduced legislation to remove the rest.
- Of the 84 hereditary peers currently taking their seats, the Earl of Devon said, 'I think the public will miss us.'
- Once King Charles III grants royal assent, the bill will take effect at the end of the current parliamentary session later this spring, and up to 92 hereditary peers will lose their seats with some offered life peerages.
- The government said the change fulfils a manifesto pledge and signalled further Lords reforms, with supporters framing it as a response to rising public demand for a more representative chamber.
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The British government of Keir Starmer managed to erase a centuries-old right, considered by many anachronistic
The hereditary peerage seats in the House of Lords, which have existed in the British Parliament for over 700 years, are disappearing into history. According to major British media outlets such as the BBC and Sky News on the 11th (local time), the House of Lords passed a House of Lords reform bill that completely abolishes the voting rights of hereditary peers. Experts praised this momentous decision, which will end the long-standing practice of…
The inherited aristocrats are being deprived of seats in the House of Lords.
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