THE SNP will table an amendment to press the government to go beyond its proposal to streamline the House of Lords and abolish it altogether.

The second reading of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, which will end the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the Lords, is set to take place tomorrow.

Abolishing the 92 seats reserved for hereditary peers was one of Labour’s manifesto commitments, and is expected to be followed by the imposition of a retirement age of 80 on members of the Lords.