Scrap automatic right of bishops to sit in Lords, says Harriet Harman

Former Labour MP puts forward amendment to reform bill aiming to end privilege for 26 C of E bishops

Church of England bishops who sit in the House of Lords by right should be removed as part of the government's changes to the second chamber, according to the veteran legislator Harriet Harman.

Harman, who was a Labour MP for more than 40 years until 2024, has put forward an amendment to the government's hereditary peers bill, aimed at ending the automatic right of 26 bishops to sit in the Lords.