Image copyright PA A bill to scrap hereditary peer by-elections has faltered amid claims of an attempt to talk it out.
Tory peer Lord Trefgarne was accused of being involved in a “clear filibuster” to prevent the House of Lords Act 1999 (Amendment) Bill from progressing.
He also tabled more than 40 of up to 60 amendments with fellow hereditary the Earl of Caithness for debate.
He was warned by other peers that standing in the way of reform risked making the chamber a “laughing stock”.
Image caption Viscount Thurso was elected to sit as a Lib Dem hereditary peer in April Reforms to the Lords by the last Labour government left just 92 hereditary peers in place in 1999.
The bill, put forward by Labour"s Lord Grocott, would remove the election process used to fill vacancies caused by the death, resignation or expulsion of the hereditary peers.
Only hereditary peers are eligible to stand for election, and only peers from the group in which the vacancy arose can vote.
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