Landmark legislation to remove the right of the remaining 92 hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords and is closer after passing its second reading in the House of Commons.

The bill was voted for by a large majority in the House of Commons and will now go into the committee stage.

The House of Lords has more than 800 members with almost 100 of them sitting as hereditary peers.

Tony Blair cut the number of hereditary peers when he first came into office in 1997 and Sir Keir Starmer will attempt to cut them out altogether.

All members of the House of Lords are unelected and are nominated by different political parties to scrutinise legislation passed by the House of Commons.

Critics of the system say that the Lords is ‘undemocratic’ and ‘unaccountable’ whilst others argue that unelected politicians are able to effectively scrutinise legislation without having to answer to the electorate.

The UK remains one of just two countries in the world with a hereditary element in its legislature. 

The removal of hereditary peers would affect two Cumbrian Lords who sit in the upper chamber.

Cumbrians, Lord Inglewood and Lord Henley both sit in the House of Lords due to their birth right but under Labour’s plans for the modernisation of parliament, both Cumbrian peers would be forced to give up their seat in the Lords.

In an interview with the BBC, Lord Inglewood said that hereditary peers were an ‘anomaly’ but added that some hereditary peers make "significantly bigger contributions than quite a lot of life peers".

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Lord Inglewood told BBC Politics North: "I don't think anybody enjoys being sacked, particularly if the reason for it, which curiously enough seems to be the identity of my father, is not a very convincing one."

"I think it is an anomaly in the modern world. I think it is important is that we find a way that evolution takes place, and, at the same time, it works in a seamless way. And what is being proposed is crude."

He added: "What we are seeing is not a reform of the House of Lords, it’s a tweaking on a journey which has probably got quite a long way to go."

The bill is expected to be heavily scrutinised when it goes to the House of Lords.