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Young people will suffer most from the government’s failure to take seriously the unsustainable pressure on public finances and living standards created by the UK’s ageing…

Senior opponents of assisted dying legislation have called on peers not to hold up the progress of the bill through parliament, warning there was a serious…

When visitors come to parliament, it seems incongruous to explain that, in our mother of parliaments, we have a second chamber – the House of Lords…

Peers have agreed to undertake more expert scrutiny of the assisted dying bill, as the legislation passed its first stage in the House of Lords.The house…

Mandelson not likely to retain Labour whip if he returns to Lords, senior peer suggestsPeter Mandelson is not likely to remain a Labour peer if he…

The House of Lords has a rare opportunity to prove its worth to the country today, as it begins to debate the assisted dying bill. Personally,…