Lord McFall of Alcluith is Lord Speaker of the House of Lords. This article is part of a series on the British political system, examining the forces shaping the country’s future.

The House of Lords is set to move to the QEII Centre while Parliament is restored, no matter which option for the estate’s ...

A new front door to the House of Lords that cost nearly £10million to install and doesn’t work properly has been branded a ...

Despite the costly works, the door must have a security officer manning it at all times, in order to press the button which ...

A member of the House of Lords last seen swimming in a river in Wales has died, police have confirmed. Dyfed-Powys Police ...

A security officer had to be permanently stationed at the door to press a button to open it, which one peer calculated was ...

In London, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a meeting with the Speaker of the House of Commons of the UK ...

MPs have voted to introduce assisted dying, almost seven months after this bill was first debated in the House of Commons.

LONDON — Britain’s House of Lords is bloated, lazy and unpopular. It’s certainly undemocratic, and by design. It’s a chamber of cronies, a palace of patronage, where some members barely ...

A law to reform the House of Lords is being introduced by the Labour government. The bill will remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers, whose presence in the Lords is described as "outdated and ...