A ban on students using mobile phones during the school day has been backed by the House of Lords. A Tory amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill passed with 178 votes to 140, and comes just weeks after opposition peers supported legislation to ban under-16s in the UK from social media platforms.

Keir Starmer’s government regards reform of the House of Lords as ‘long overdue and essential’

Sir Keir Starmer believes Lord Peter Mandelson should not be a member of the House of Lords. The Prime Minister is facing calls to strip the former US ambassador of his peerage, which would require a new law,