The Government’s commitment to build more homes, while protecting wildlife from deadly pollutants is “failing to deliver for either side”
UK higher education qualifications have been suspended from the European quality standards body because of the way the Office for Students was regulating universities.
The youngest ever life peer cast four failed votes with the Government before she’s even made her first speech
Even the key showdown over the Illegal Migration Bill in the chamber had just 6,000 views
A big problem facing UK politics is that both main political parties see the status quo as in their narrow self-interest, writes former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
Boris Johnson’s controversial appointments to the upper chamber show change is required – but Labour may not be on the right track
Byline Times analyses the attendance rate of 12 Peers who have donated more than £1 million to the party that appointed them
YouGov polling suggests strong potential support across the board for a very different chamber to replace the House of Lords
Keir Starmer has closed-off policy-making and refuses to engage with critical voices, writes a Labour peer
Baroness Jenny Jones explores how reform of the monarchy could work better for our democracy
On the three-year anniversary of Keir Starmer becoming Labour Leader, Adam Bienkov analyses whether he has kept to his word or broken it
Labour’s announcement that it would abolish the UK’s unelected second chamber is a headline-grabbing idea with little thought of the problems involved, writes AC Grayling
Sam Bright inspects the former Prime Minister’s plans to rewire British politics
The finding raises questions about the UK’s commitment to achieving net zero – with one MP telling Byline Times ‘it’s akin to asking arsonists to legislate on robust fire safety legislation’
Frances Crook, co-convener of the Commission on Political Power, sets out why incremental shifts in the role of monarchy and an over-powerful executive could strengthen democracy in the unlikely event of wholesale reform
Senior peers have slammed the Government’s attempts to sabotage strike action, reports David Hencke
A Parliament with legal and illegal substances being consumed as and when is unfit to uphold standards in public life, says Rachel Morris
The backlash over the secondary employment of MPs rolls on, as Sam Bright and Sian Norris reveal the lucrative role of one backbench Conservative
Charlotte Robinson explores the ways in which oligarchs have managed to embed themselves in the aristocracy
A now-infamous meeting between the Prime Minister and his Russian ally was not recorded by officials, Sam Bright reports