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Labour to unveil plans to abolish hereditary peers in Lords

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Plans to get rid of remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords have been set out in the Commons .

Abolishing 92 seats reserved for hereditary peers was one of Labour 's general election promises.

The aim is to finish reforms introduced by the last Labour government.

In 1999 , Labour revoked the 700-year-old right of all hereditary peers to sit in the Lords .

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