The Government announces plans to introduce women peerages in the House of Lords on 30 October 1957. The scheme involves the creation of male and female life peerages, allowing distinguished and ...

As the Mirror uncovers evidence of crimes at the Atomic Weapons Establishment, the first Prime Minister in history who ...

Rachel Reeves has admitted she accepted money for clothes, as the backlash over gifts from donors threatened to overshadow ...

The Sunday Times reports Diane Abbott and other Labour figures have been offered peerages to "make way" for allies of Sir Keir Starmer. The paper says since the election announcement a number of ...

Rishi Sunak has handed peerages to Theresa May, Sir Graham Brady and his chief of staff in a dissolution honours list announced less than an hour before polls close at the General Election.

The government is planning to banish the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords in the biggest parliamentary ...

She said there was nothing in the legislation to stop hereditary peers who were removed being nominated for life peerages in ...

Ross Kempsell was just 31 when he was appointed to the Lords by Boris Johnson. He has since set up a wide array of business ...

Emily Maitlis's series, A Very Royal Scandal, about her Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew is out now. She talks Grazia ...

Britain's shortest-serving prime minister Liz Truss has unveiled her resignation honours list, sparking an angry backlash from some critics. Ms Truss, who spent 49 days in office, nominated ...

MPs will get the chance to vote on the government's controversial proposal to cut winter fuel payments next week. Meanwhile, ...