An ignoble decision
On April 29, an important part of British parliamentary history came to an end after nearly 800 years. Hereditary peers -- those 88 who were there by right of ancestry -- were expelled from the House of Lords by Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government, with barely a word of thank-you for their and their families’ service. Although it is some consolation that 26 of them were subsequently granted life peerages, allowing them to continue sitting in the Lords, the rest are out of luck, and the symbolism of Starmer’s move remains.
Hereditary peers had been sitting in the House of Lords, ...
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