At that time, I was a member of the Opposition Front Bench or Shadow Government in Britain s House of Lords.

The House of Lords has 139 women (19.7 ), while there are 125 women (19.4 ) in the British House of Commons.

And often when a bill is being discussed during the Commons it comes to the Lords, the Lords makes some amendments to it hopes to make improvements.

Arrangements for the House of Lords are very different, as the House of Lords is the unelected revising chamber.

2010 arrest In August 2010, he spoke at a conference at the British House of Lords, at which he criticized Bahrain's handling of human rights issues.

In the old days the House of Lords was as powerful as the House of Commons.

The House of Lords is, if you like, supportive in that the House of Lords scrutinises, advises and makes changes if possible to the amendments which come from the House Commons.

I exercised my right to be tried before the House of Lords.

Now people may ask why should the House of Lords exist?

We have debates in the House of Lords which are on topics of general interest.

Many times the Commons approve of what the Lords have done and accept the amendments many times they will not, so they change it back again.

If you could not persuade the House of Lords then they effectively had a right of veto.

And then they reach the House of Lords.

The House of Lords, the appointed chamber charged with amending and revising legislation, and the Monarch, who is the Head of State.

It is through a document called Hansard, which is a verbatim account of every single deliberation in the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

It comes back again to the Lords the Lords will look at it again.

LONDON From next year, on swearing allegiance to the Queen, all members of Britain s House of Lords and I am one of them will be required to sign a written commitment to honesty and integrity.

Harding, the Queens Advocate in 1854 Britain, wrote that by the Law of Nations War abrogates all Treaties between the belligerents. The British blockade of Zanzibar in 1873 was considered by Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty in Britain as an act of war that would annul the Treaty of 1845 between Britain and Zanzibar.

I do. Milords and gentlemen...

Milords and gentlemen, this sitting is adjourned.

The then Conservative leader, William Hague, immediately expelled me to the back benches.

5 British Overseas Territories Bill, Explanatory Notes, House of Lords, 26 June 2000.

And for a period the monarchy was abolished indeed for a short time the House of Lords was abolished.

The big power that we have in the House of Lords is really to make the government think again.

To divert the noble lords and ladies of Paris.

Nobly ridden, my lords.

I took the Energy bill through the House of Lords, and a number of amendments I proposed were not accepted by the Government.

My lords and gentlemen, I charge treachery.

As Baroness Valerie Amos, Leader of the House of Lords and President of the Council of the United Kingdom, speaking on behalf of the Presidency of the European Union, so succinctly stated at this meeting

Labour wants to reduce the House of Lords membership by half and hold referenda on making it wholly elected and on changing the voting system.

A new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom came into being in October 2009 to replace the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords.

Why, some of those lords have to scrounge around for a living.

While a small number are made up of hereditary or religious representatives, the majority of Peers are appointed to the House of Lords for their expertise in one or more areas.

When a bill is introduced into Parliament it goes through many stages, both in the House of Lords, where I sit, and in the House of Commons.

Shortly after Mr. Smith became a FlLMCLUB classic, there was a week of all night filibustering in the House of Lords.

Milords and gentlemen, we have ships, brave captains and fine crews.

Your fulminations, milords and gentlemen... are full of bilge and blather.

I now have the pleasure of giving the floor to Mr. Chris Doyle, Director of the Council for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding.

Returning to British first principles, the House of Commons rescinded legislation suppressing press freedom in 1776.

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She's British!

Anne was in favour of the measure, and forced George to vote for the bill in the House of Lords, even though, being a practising Lutheran, he was an occasional conformist himself.

The Bill received its third reading in the Lords on 21 July, but the Labour government fell in August and the Bill was lost.

Journalists are free, as indeed anybody is, to contact a Member of the House of Lords and ask them about what is happening in the chamber, seek their views and request interviews.

In August, a delegation of six United Kingdom parliamentarians, comprising one member of the House of Lords and five members of the House of Commons, visited the Territory as part of a tour of Caribbean countries and Territories.