Labour announce new Lords Opposition Leader
Former Basildon MP Angela Smith has replaced Jan Royall as Labour’s leader in the House of Lords. Baroness…
House of Lords
Baroness Royall to step down as Labour leader in the Lords
Baroness Jan Royall has announced that she will be stepping down as Labour’s leader in the House of…
Labour peer Ruth Rendell has passed away
Ruth Rendell, the crime novelist and Labour peer, has passed away today aged 85. Rendell was elevated to…
The Sunnyfesto
Yesterday, the Sun Newspaper set out its ‘Sunifesto’ for Britain; today here’s my response – a ‘Sunnyfesto’. (Note:…
Jack Straw and Tessa Jowell will enter Lords after election
Former Labour ministers Jack Straw and Dame Tessa Jowell will both become members of the House of Lords…
LabourList readers back Miliband’s plans for a senate
The news cycle may be obsessing over Ed Miliband’s leadership, so it may be worth a timely reminder…
“An important contribution to the immigration debate”? The poisonous rhetoric of Cameron’s Lords nominee
Andrew Green has been nominated by David Cameron to be a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords.…
Tories accused of deliberately misleading with their peerage for major donor
The Tories have been accused of ‘deliberately misleading’ people with their reasons for giving a peerage to one…
We need more local Labour leaders in the Lords
Here’s a question for your next Constituency Labour Party (CLP) pub quiz – when was the last time…
Three new Labour peers announced – but there are serious questions about the Government’s approach to honours
A new list of peerages is being announced today, with Labour granted three new places in the Lords.…
