{"id":242649,"date":"2026-03-11T14:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=242649"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:30:33","slug":"britain-removes-hereditary-seats-from-house-of-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/242649\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain removes hereditary seats from House of Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Britain’s parliament has approved legislation to remove the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords, ending a centuries-old system of aristocratic seats in the upper chamber that the government says should not ‌be secured by birth, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The House of Lords passed the Hereditary Peers Bill on Tuesday evening, fulfilling a reform launched more than 25 years ago and a key manifesto pledge from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government to modernise the upper chamber.<\/p>\n

Angela Smith, the leader of the upper chamber, said in a statement on Tuesday ⁠that the Lords played a “vital role within our bicameral parliament, but nobody should sit in the House by virtue of an inherited title”.<\/p>\n

Before the reform, 92 hereditary peers could still sit and vote in the upper chamber, a number retained as an interim compromise after more than 600 were removed in 1999 under Tony Blair, the former ‌Labour prime ⁠minister, who had labelled the hereditary system an “anachronism.”<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Britain’s parliament has approved legislation to remove the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords, ending a centuries-old system of aristocratic seats in the upper chamber that the government says should not ‌be secured by birth, Reuters writes. The House of Lords passed the Hereditary Peers Bill on Tuesday evening, fulfilling a reform launched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":242638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242650,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242649\/revisions\/242650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}