House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill — New Clause 20 — Purpose of this Act — 12 Nov 2024 at 18:58
“The next Labour government will…bring about an immediate modernisation, by introducing legislation to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords.”
“I repeat, as I began, that our first duty, in view of the electoral and Parliamentary history of this measure, is to place this Bill on the Statute Book. It is stamped, if ever a measure was stamped, with the authority and approval of the electorate of the United Kingdom.”-[Official Report, 15 May 1911; Vol. 25, c. 1699.]
“barely been put in the oven…let alone…baked.”
Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
Party | Majority (Aye) | Minority (No) | Both | Turnout |
Con | 0 | 71 (+2 tell) | 0 | 60.3% |
Green | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Independent | 3 | 0 | 0 | 42.9% |
Lab | 348 (+2 tell) | 0 | 0 | 85.4% |
LDem | 65 | 0 | 0 | 90.3% |
PC | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
SDLP | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
SNP | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Traditional Unionist Voice | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
UUP | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Total: | 437 | 71 | 0 | 81.1% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division
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Name | Constituency | Party | Vote | |
no rebellions |