Labour to remove peers 'who fail to contribute enough'

Labour plans to remove peers who do not contribute enough to the House of Lords and to press ahead with plans for a retirement age of 80 from the upper house.

- Jessica Elgot

Writing for the Telegraph, the leader of the House of Lords, Angela Smith, said a select committee would consider the next stage of Lords reform after the abolition of hereditary peers.

Lady Smith said removing the last hereditary peers was "by no means the limit of the government's Lords reform ambitions" and that the new committee would consider carefully how the next phase would work.