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The United Kingdom’s new Labour government said it would cut about 100 hereditary lawmakers from the House of Lords.
The government said the initiative would be a first step ahead of wider reforms of parliament’s unelected upper chamber.
“Measures to modernise the constitution will be introduced including House of Lords reform to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the Lords,” King Charles III said.
Labour returned to government following a landslide win against the Tories earlier this month.
Details later.
AFP
