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The House of Lords Bill was ex­pected to face a tough fight in the House of Lords. Sev­eral Lords threat­ened to dis­rupt the Gov­ern­ment's other bills if they con­tin­ued with the plan to abol­ish the hered­i­taries' right to sit in the House of Lords. The Earl of On­slow, for in­stance, said, "I'm happy to force a di­vi­sion on each and every cl...

The House of Lords Act 1999 pro­vides firstly that "No-one shall be a mem­ber of the House of Lords by virtue of a hered­i­tary peerage." (The Act treats the Prin­ci­pal­ity of Wales and the Earl­dom of Chester as hered­i­tary peer­ages, though those ti­tles, granted nor­mally to the heir-ap­par­ent, are not tech­ni­cally hered­i­tary.) The Act the...

Labour proposals to remove remaining hereditary peers

The Labour Gov­ern­ment ex­pected even­tu­ally to pre­sent a bill for a sec­ond stage of House of Lords re­form, thus re­mov­ing the re­main­ing 92 hered­i­tary peers; the his­tory of such at­tempts be­tween 1997 and 2009 is set out in a re­port in The Guardian. Pro­pos­als called The House of Lords: Reform were pub­lished by order of the House on 1 Jan­u­ary 2007, with a fore­word by Jack Straw. In 2009, Labour in­tro­duced the Con­sti­tu­tional Re­form and Gov­er­nance Bill, which would hav...

2012 coalition bill electing all Lords and halving their number

The coali­tion gov­ern­ment of David Cameron (Con­ser­v­a­tives) and Nick Clegg (Lib­eral De­moc­rats), in­au­gu­rated in 2010, had plans to re­form the House of Lords by mak­ing it mostly elected and slash­ing its size. Deputy Prime Min­is­ter and Lib­eral De­mo­c­rat leader Nick Clegg spear­headed the push to bring in the changes. The gov­ern­ment wanted four-fifths of mem­bers of a re­formed House of Lords to be elected. They would have served 15-year terms of of­fice, after which they cou...

2014 and 2015 reform acts

The House of Lords Re­form Act 2014 al­lowed peers to re­tire or re­sign, to be ex­cluded for se­ri­ous crim­i­nal of­fences, or to be re­moved for non-at­ten­dance dur­ing a whole ses­sion. The Lords Spir­i­tual (Women) Act 2015 al­lowed fe­male bish­ops to be ap­pointed Lord Spir­i­tual, which first hap­pened on 7 Sep­tem­ber 2015. The House of Lords (Ex­pul­sion and Sus­pen­sion) Act 2015au­tho­rised the House of Lords to expel or sus­pend a mem­ber for se­ri­ous mis­con­duct; ex­pelled me...

Home Office document from the Constitutional UnitAnnex B lists the hereditary peers who lost their seats.