{"id":55743,"date":"2024-09-05T16:17:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T06:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=55743"},"modified":"2024-09-05T16:17:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T06:17:41","slug":"uk-govt-moves-to-oust-hereditary-peers-from-upper-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=55743","title":{"rendered":"UK govt moves to oust hereditary peers from upper house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The UK government on Thursday introduces legislation to axe seats in the House of Lords retained for hereditary lawmakers as it moves to reform parliament&#8217;s unelected upper chamber.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bill will remove the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherited their position as a member of an aristocratic family.<\/p>\n<p>They hold titles such as duke, earl, viscount and baron. Britain is an anomaly among western governments in having such lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The move was a manifesto commitment of Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#8217;s Labour party ahead of its landslide general election win in July, which returned it to power for the first time in 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>It resurrects reform of the Lords that started under Tony Blair&#8217;s Labour government in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a landmark reform to our constitution,&#8221; constitution minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hereditary principle in law-making has lasted for too long and is out of step with modern Britain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The second chamber plays a vital role in our constitution and people should not be voting on our laws in parliament by an accident of birth,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation will easily pass the House of Commons lower chamber due to Labour&#8217;s massive majority before it will have to be approved by the Lords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government on Thursday introduces legislation to axe seats in the House of Lords retained for hereditary lawmakers as it moves to reform parliament&#8217;s unelected upper chamber. The bill will remove the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherited their position as a member of an aristocratic family. They hold titles such as duke, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2233],"class_list":["post-55743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-uk-govt-moves-to-oust-hereditary-peers-from-upper-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}