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As well as promising to bring about "immediate modernisation" to the Lords by abolishing hereditary peers, Labour's general election manifesto pledged to introduce a mandatory retirement age of 80 for members of the upper house.

There are 92 seats for hereditary peers who have inherited their titles from their families, and in its general election manifesto, Labour promised to scrap them.

As of 1356, there were seven electors: Four were hereditary nobles and three were chosen by the Catholic Church.

It’s the latest example of the Republican presidential nominee alleging that immigrants are changing the hereditary makeup of the United States.

He was also the hereditary Chief of the Scottish Clan Kerr, a testament to his deep Scottish roots.