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\nBritain\u2019s parliament has approved legislation to remove the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords, ending a centuries-old system of aristocratic seats in the upper \u200cchamber that the government says should not be secured by birth.
\nThe House of Lords passed the Hereditary Peers \u200cBill on Tuesday evening, fulfilling a reform \u200blaunched more than 25 years ago and a \u200bkey manifesto pledge \u200cfrom Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s Labour government \u200bto modernise the upper chamber.
\nAngela Smith, the leader of the upper chamber, said in a statement on Tuesday that the Lords played a \u201cvital role within our bicameral parliament, but nobody should sit in \u200cthe House by virtue of an inherited title\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
london Britain\u2019s parliament has approved legislation to remove the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords, ending a centuries-old system of aristocratic seats in the upper \u200cchamber that the government says should not be secured by birth. The House of Lords passed the Hereditary Peers \u200cBill on Tuesday evening, fulfilling a reform \u200blaunched more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-536141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n