The British Parliament still has 92 unelected lawmakers who inherit seats by bloodline. They're all older white men. A new ...

Government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the change put an end to "an archaic and undemocratic principle." The removed ...

Mothers in England and Wales may be less likely to face criminal charges for ending their own pregnancies up to birth after ...

Britain's upper house of parliament has supported measures to remove women from criminal liability related to abortion, not to legalise abortion up to birth, contrary to misleading ​online posts.

The move has been described as “one of the biggest reforms to Parliament and UK democracy in a generation.” ...

Britain passes law removing hereditary peers from House of Lords, ending aristocratic seats in parliament. Modernisation pledge by Labour fulfilled.

If the very name of the House of Lords implies its aristocratic history, modern Britain is finally letting go of inherited power: the last hereditary members will be removed after a vote in the other, ...

UK ends centuries-old hereditary seats from House of Lords - Lord True, the Conservatives’ shadow Lords leader, described the ...

LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - Britain should reject any move to let artificial intelligence companies freely mine copyrighted material for commercial model training and instead adopt a licensing-first ...