Theresa May Eyeballs Lords As She Warns Them To Deliver ‘What The British People Want’ On Brexit

Theresa May “eyeballed” unelected peers today after she issued a stark warning to the House of Lords not to frustrate the British public’s decision to back Brexit.

As the Lords started discussing the EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, the Prime Minister said that she didn’t want “anyone holding up what the British people want”.

Lords Will Defeat The Government Over Brexit, Mandelson Warns

Theresa May is set for a fresh battle over Brexit this week as Lord Mandelson confirmed peers are primed to defeat the Government on two key measures.

The former Labour Cabinet Minister today called on his House of Lords colleagues not to “throw in the towel” over Brexit, and predicted the Government could lose votes on the rights of EU citizens to stay in the UK and giving Parliament a meaningful vote on the negotiation.

Theresa May Refuses To Deny Nigel Farage Will Be Given Seat In House Of Lords

Theresa May has refused to deny Nigel Farage could be given a peerage and a seat in the House of Lords.

The Ukip leader has spent the last week basking in Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election - which he sees as part of the same movement that took the UK out of the EU.

Yesterday Farage refused to rule out re-joining the Conservative Party in the wake of the Brexit result. “Let’s see what happens,” he said when asked by Sky News.

Peerage Handed To Tory MP Douglas Hogg Who Claimed £2,200 To Clean His Moat On Expenses

The Tory MP who epitomised the expenses scandal has been handed a seat in the House of Lords as David Cameron gave peerages to long-serving Conservative frontbenchers and advisers.

Douglas Hogg, the former agriculture minister who claimed the £2,200 cost of having the moat at his country mansion cleared, is among 45 new peerages announced today to mark the dissolution of the last Parliament.

House Of Lords Toilets Refurbished, Costing An 'Eye-Watering' £100,000

Campaigners have condemned an "eye-watering" sum of money being spent on doing up two toilets used by members of the House of Lords.

Up to £100,000 is to be spent refurbishing the toilets at the Palace of Westminster, according to a House of Commons contract.

Lords inflict triple welfare bill defeat on government

The government's plans to reform welfare were badly hit on Wednesday when it suffered three defeats in the House of Lords on proposed benefit cuts.

Plans to means-test employment and support allowance (ESA) payments for disabled people after only a year were rejected by peers.

The means test would have applied to cancer patients and stroke survivors, and was denounced by Lord Patel, a crossbencher and former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians, as an immoral attack on the sick, the vulnerable and the poor. "If we are going to rob the poor to pay the rich, then we enter into a different form of morality," Patel said.

The government was defeated by 224 votes to 186, even though Lord Freud, the welfare minister, claimed that the cost of the amendment would be £1.6bn spread over five years.

The other defeats were over plans to time-limit ESA for those undergoing cancer treatment, and to restrict access to ESA for young people with disabilities or illness.

The defeats do not augur well for the government's chances in future votes in the Lords on the bill, which includes housing benefit caps. The bill is at report stage before returning to the Commons.