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  Labour attempts to strengthen regulation of UK fracking industry

  25 Aug 2014: Opposition party to table amendments to Lords infrastructure bill that would tighten rules for companies drilling for shale gas

• Lords majorities are not good

  20 Aug 2014: Letters: Labour had just 31% of the vote in the Lords. We had to win by persuasion and argument

• Lords and majorities

  13 Aug 2014: Letters: Yet Labour chose to reject democracy and retain patronage: why bleat now at the results?

• We need coalition in the Commons and free votes in the Lords

  11 Aug 2014: Letters: For the next parliament, when planning for a hung Commons and possible coalition in that House, why cannot we exclude the Lords?

• The way to deflate the swollen House of Lords is by sorting out party funding

  10 Aug 2014: Chris Huhne: The pre-election scramble for high-net-worth donors who might be susceptible to the lure of ermine is no way to finance politics

• Parliament bars and restaurants received £6m of public money

  10 Aug 2014:

  Accounts show overall costs for House of Commons catering services fell but rose for Lords

• David Cameron in spotlight over two more peerages to Tory party donors

  8 Aug 2014: Labour claims 13 peers created by the prime minister during term of office have donated more than £22m to party coffers

• Karren Brady and Stuart Rose among list of new peers

  8 Aug 2014:

  Labour and Lib Dems reward party officials and former councillors in list of 22 new working peers, half of whom are women

• Cash-for-peerages row to reignite as Lib Dem and Tory donors head for Lords

  7 Aug 2014: Nick Clegg attempts to pre-empt row by blaming Conservatives for failing to agree House of Lords reform in current parliament

• Martin Rowson on Lady Warsi's resignation – cartoon

  Cartoon, 5 Aug 2014:

  Sayeeda Warsi, the senior Foreign Office minister, has resigned from the government in protest at its policy on Gaza, describing it as 'morally indefensible'

• Warsi hits back at Osborne: 'George is a good friend of the Israeli government'

  5 Aug 2014: Lady Warsi gave an interview to Channel 4 News defending her decision to quit the government and urging other ministers to speak out about their concerns

• Lady Warsi resigns over UK’s ‘morally indefensible’ stance on Gaza

  5 Aug 2014: Foreign Office minister announces on Twitter that she is standing down because she can no longer support government policy

• Whitehall tries to revive plans to share confidential personal data

  4 Aug 2014: Proposals to share people's details resemble Labour's 2009 plans which critics said could 'wipe out privacy at a stroke'

• A depressingly British tale of friends in high places

  4 Aug 2014: Zoe Williams: From Ofsted and the BBC to the Lords, there’s a strong whiff of cronyism. When will we have the courage to challenge it?

• Karren Brady to be made a Tory peer

  3 Aug 2014:

  Cameron to give football club boss and Apprentice star peerage amid speculation about possible candidacy for London mayor

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