Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 17 points 5 months ago

The majority of hereditary peers, who inherit their titles through their families, were abolished in 1999 under the last Labour government and this bill gets rid of the last remaining 92.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

WTF...this should have been 1899.

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