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Ministers introduce plans to remove all hereditary peers from Lords

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The UK ’s 92 remaining hereditary peers who have inherited their titles from their parents will lose their right to sit and vote in the upper chamber under proposals put forward by ministers on Thursday .

The move would complete reforms first made by Tony Blair's government, which revoked the 700-year-old right of all hereditary peers to sit in the Lords in 1999 .

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