Britain’s new Labor government is readying, sometime this coming year, to do away with the last vestiges of hereditary peerages in the House of Lords. What a blunder. Already the House of Lords Act of 1999 ​​ended the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit. Ninety two peerages, though, were exempted. Now the government of Prime Minister Starmer wants to eliminate them, too. In their stead would be life peers, appointed by 10 Downing Street.