Britain has just removed the last hereditary peers from the House of Lords, ending a parliamentary tradition that lasted for more than 700 years.
This video explains what changed, why it matters, and what Britain may have lost in the process.
For generations, hereditary lords sat in Parliament not because they were elected or appointed by party leaders, but because they belonged to an older constitutional order. That order linked monarchy, aristocracy, continuity, and government in a way modern politics increasingly rejects.
Now that final link is being cut.
Supporters call this democratic progress. Critics see something else: the steady transfer of power away from institutions with independent legitimacy and toward the political class and party machinery.
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