Tag: House of Lords

• Tuesday, January 23rd 2024 - 10:03 UTC

  Lords call for the UK/Rwanda treaty to be delayed to improve asylum procedures

  

  The House of Lords has called for the new UK-Rwanda treaty to be delayed until Kigali improves its asylum procedures. Peers backed a motion calling the government not to ratify the treaty by 214 votes to 171, but the motion is not binding on the government, according to a report from BBC.

• Tuesday, November 14th 2023 - 11:41 UTC

  How is Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron to be scrutinized by Parliament

  

  The following article from BBC looks at the questions raised by the return of David Cameron to government as Foreign Secretary, and since not an elected member of the House of Commons, but rather made a peer, he will re-enter Parliament via the House of Lords, as Lord Cameron.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 21:38 UTC

  Prince of Wales reads Queen's Speech at House of Lords for the first time

  

  The Prince of Wales has for the first time since 1963 replaced his mother Queen Elizabeth II at the reading of the monarch's traditional “Queen's Speech” before the House of Lords.

• Wednesday, November 24th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  UK Forces most serious offences will be tried in civilian courts

  

  House of Lords have defeated the Boris Johnson government in backing a move aimed at ensuring troops accused of the most serious offences are normally tried in a civilian court. The House of Lords supported the presumption against such cases being dealt with by the military justice system by 210 votes to 190, majority 20.

• Monday, October 19th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Anglican archbishops warn about Brexit as the Internal Markets Bill will be discussed in House of Lords

  

  The UK's five Anglican archbishops have warned the government that its new Brexit bill could set a “disastrous precedent”, in a rare joint letter. The Internal Markets Bill could damage the relationship between the UK's four nations, the five, including Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, write in the Financial Times.

• Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 08:24 UTC

  Another challenge for PM May: Lords vote to negotiate a customs union with EU

  

  Britain's House of Lords passed an amendment on Wednesday calling for the government to negotiate a customs union with the European Union, giving Prime Minister Theresa May a potential new headache in her Brexit plans.

• Friday, January 18th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Speaker of UK Parliament John Bercow, next Brexit victim?

  

  Such is the anger with the Speaker of the UK Parliament at senior levels of government, it has been suggested he could be blocked from getting a peerage when he retires. Ministers are furious at what they see as John Bercow's “bias” during Commons debates on Brexit.

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  UK fishing industry questions new impractical EU rules on quotas and discards

  

  New European Union rules on fishing quotas could have a “grave” impact on the UK's fishing industry, a House of Lords committee has said - just a day before the new policy is introduced. Under previous rules, crews often discarded, into the sea, fish that took them over their quota for that species. But under the new policy, fishers must bring the full haul back to shore. This change is to stop fish being wasted.

• Friday, October 26th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Controversy in Westminster over “legal witch hunt” of British troops that served in Ulster

  

  More than one third of Tory Members of Parliament, including a former Defense secretary - have written to the prime minister to demand an end to “legal witch hunts” of military veterans. Signatories to a letter delivered to Theresa May on Tuesday also include more than 50 members of the House of Lords, including four former chiefs of defense staff.

• Friday, October 26th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Lords furious with Brexit Secretary who refuses to attend and inform EU Select Committee

  

  The House of Lords EU Select Committee has written to Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab urging him not to stand in the way of Parliamentary scrutiny, and to honor his previous commitment to give evidence to Committees “on a regular basis”.