OUR GOAL
To ensure that son preference is no longer practised in the UK.
In no part of life should it be acceptable to treat daughters differently from sons but male primogeniture, where sons are favoured over daughters is a requirement for hereditary titles. This matters because there are still 92 seats in the House of Lords reserved for hereditary peers, who are all men. While they remain part of the legislative process the hereditary peers can’t be exempt from the same equality laws they make for the rest of us to live by.
The precedent was set in 2013 when the laws of succession were changed for Royal family, removing preference for sons over daughters. It is merely the will that is stopping us from allowing the same rights for all daughters.
We hope that you will join our campaign to ensure that this last state-sponsored sexual discrimination is overturned.
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Male Peers on the Register for Election
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LATEST NEWS
Read more from the campaign as it happens…
New Government – the campaign continues…
When Rishi Sunak called the General Election, all bills promptly failed in their progress through parliament. This included Harriet Baldwin’s excellent Private Members’ Bill –
Harriet Baldwin’s Private Members’ Bill is rescheduled for 21st June 2024
Harriet Baldwin’s PMB was scheduled to receive its second reading on 23 February; it was timed out and is rescheduled for 21 June. Here is
Lord Northbrook’s Private Members’ Bill
24th February 2024 — Succession to Peerages and Baronetcies Bill – received its second reading in the House of Lords on Friday 9 February. It
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