Nobility face chopping block in UK House of Lords

RN Breakfast - Separate stories podcast

British lawmakers this week have voted to approve in principle a bill to strip hereditary aristocrats of the right to sit and vote in the upper house.

It's a right these nobles and their families have had for more than 700 years. The Labour Government says the decision will remove an “outdated and indefensible” relic of the past.

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