Lord George Foulkes says the Russian’s peerage must be ‘looked at again’ after it emerges no formal rationale was given for the appointment

The government has been told on Monday by the House of Lords to curb disability and incapacity benefits as this is costing more than what is spent on the

TV cameras broadcasting from the House of Lords chamber. Proceedings were televised on BBC1 and BBC2 for the first time on 23 January 1985 and footage is now available to watch online on the House of Lords YouTube channel.

FORMER Scottish Labour minister Margaret Curran has taken a seat in the House of Lords. The 66-year-old, who lost her Glasgow seat in the Commons at the 2015 election, had previously served as shadow Scottish secretary. She had previously been an MSP at Holyrood and held a number of posts within the Scottish executive.

The Mayor of London recently wrote in a comment piece that "the spectre of a resurgent fascism haunts the West".