#Hereditary

Dozens handed life peerages in apparent concession, enabling their return to red benches

From Reddit - r/ukpolitics: Hereditary peers' last hurrah as 700-year-old system abolished || A law removing the right of the last remaining hereditaries to sit in the Lords passed last month, enacting a commitment in Labour's 2024 election manifesto.

From Independent RSS Feed: Centuries-old tradition ends as hereditary peers leave House of Lords

It comes after legislation to remove their right to sit in the upper chamber passed last month.

Two hereditary peers who are set to be removed from the House of Lords will be allowed to keep their parliamentary passes and ceremonial positions.

The end is nigh for hereditary peers, whose inherited right to sit in the House of Lords is set to be stripped from them after the passage of a new law this week.

Dozens of hereditary peers are set to lose their seats in the House of Lords, after the passage of a bill that will end a parliamentary role dating back hundreds of years.