A Conservative government gained Royal Assent for the Peerage Act 1963, enabling peers to disclaim their peerages (in order to stand for election to the House of Commons) and admitting female hereditary peers to the House of Lords.
A Conservative government gained Royal Assent for the Peerage Act 1963, enabling peers to disclaim their peerages (in order to stand for election to the House of Commons) and admitting female hereditary peers to the House of Lords.