{"id":16993,"date":"2026-04-28T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/16993\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:11:08","slug":"house-of-lords-shakeup-the-end-of-hereditary-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/16993\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Lords shakeup: The end of hereditary peers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"House of Lords shakeup: The end of hereditary peers\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pv00lpEwEGk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHouse of Lords shakeup: The end of hereditary peers<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFrom the Duke of Wellington to the Earl of Caithness, they\u2019ve been sitting on the famous red benches of the House of Lords for centuries. <\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>Their ancestors witnessed the War of the Roses and the Civil War, but now the remaining hereditary peers must face their own demise this week, after legislation was passed to remove them from the upper chamber. <\/p>\n<p>For critics, it\u2019s the end of an undemocratic anachronism. For the hereditaries themselves, we\u2019re losing a piece of our history.<\/p>\n<p>Warning, this report contains offensive language.<\/p>\n<p>Correspondent: Kiran Moodley<br \/>\nProducer: Nanette van der Laan<br \/>\nCamera: Ray Queally, Soren Munk, Kevin Langdon<br \/>\nEditor: Sophie Larkin-Tannetta<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House of Lords shakeup: The end of hereditary peers From the Duke of Wellington to the Earl of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21110,21111,366,352,365,21109,21106,18288,14896,21105,21107,341,21108,21112,267],"class_list":{"0":"post-16993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-channel-4-news","8":"tag-baron","9":"tag-baroness","10":"tag-channel-4","11":"tag-channel-4-news","12":"tag-channel4","13":"tag-earl","14":"tag-hereditary-peers","15":"tag-house-of-lords","16":"tag-lords","17":"tag-peers","18":"tag-uk-lords","19":"tag-uk-news","20":"tag-uk-peers","21":"tag-uk-politica","22":"tag-uk-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116481565832004714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}