Lib Dems plan to force vote on replacing Lords with elected upper chamber

Party wants to amend government's bill that would end tradition of hereditary peers to make reforms go further

The Liberal Democrats will attempt to hijack the government's bill to ban Lords from inheriting their seats in parliament this week in an attempt to force a vote on an entirely elected upper chamber.

The government's hereditary peers bill, which is heading for its committee stage on Tuesday and is likely to clear the House of Commons the same day, will put an end to the tradition and ban the the current 92 lords who inherited their titles from sitting in the second chamber.