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House of Lords

July 2024

  • King Charles at the state opening of parliament

    Housebuilding, railways, Lords reform: what to expect in the king’s speech

    More than 30 bills expected as Labour government sets out its legislative agenda for this session of parliament
  • Lords in red and white gowns sitting very closely together

    Move to reduce Lords retirement age to 80 is not about Joe Biden, says Keir Starmer

    Ahead of UK-US bilateral talks, PM says primary driver for cutting peers’ retirement age is size of Lords chamber

    • Cleaning up our fetid politics is Keir Starmer’s toughest task yet. Here’s how he can do it, fast

      Polly Toynbee

    • UK general election results in full: Labour wins in landslide

    • Sunak’s chief of staff and Theresa May among Tory peerages in dissolution honours

June 2024

  • Overhead view of members of the House of Lords in their robes at the state opening of parliament

    Labour to add dozens of peers to back its policies and improve gender balance

  • Craig Williams (left) pictured with Rishi Sunak in 2023.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak refuses to say if aide who bet on election date knew about timing – as it happened

May 2024

  • Richard Rosser was born into a family of rail enthusiasts: they chose not to own a car, preferring rail travel.

    Lord Rosser obituary

  • Alice Edwards

    The IPP scandal
    Prisoners serving sentences with no clear end is a stain on British justice – it also amounts to torture

    Alice Edwards
  • Kulveer Ranger.

    Peer faces year’s ban from Lords bars for bullying two people while drunk

  • A designed image with the words 'Politics Weekly UK'

    Politics Weekly UK
    Coming 5 May: Politics Weekly Westminster – an extra podcast episode to get your political fix

April 2024

  • Migrants are brought into Dover Port by a RNLI lifeboat after being picked up in the English Channel.

    The Guardian view on sending refugees to Rwanda: the UN is right – this law sets a bad example

  • Rishi Sunak walks to attend a press conference at Downing Street in London, 22 April 2024.

    First Edition newsletter
    Tuesday briefing: Rishi Sunak finally passes his Rwanda bill – now to find out if it works

  • Lawyers will now prepare for legal battles on behalf of individual asylum seekers challenging removal to east Africa

    1:44

    UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda – video

  • Rishi Sunak in front a lectern which reads 'Stop the Boats'

    UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rwanda bill clears parliament after peers abandon final battle over safety amendment – as it happened

  • No matter how bad the Rwanda bill is, a bunch of unelected peers shouldn’t decide its fate

    Simon Jenkins

  • Rwanda bill: what does the latest delay mean?

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Tory HQ resists calls to refer Menzies allegations to police – as it happened

  • Rwanda bill further delayed after Lords again votes for changes

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