The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords". The Parliament comprises the Sovereign, the House of Commons (which is the lower house of Parliament and referred to as "the Commons"), and the Lords. In Parliament the members of the 751 seat House of Lords currently outnumber the members of the 646 seat House of Commons. The full, formal style of the House of Lords is The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled. The formal style of individual members of the House of Lords is The Right Honourable the Lord X (of Y). Lords who are Privy Counsellors place "PC" after their title: all Privy Counsellors are in any case entitled to the epithet The Right Honourable. On March 7, 2007, the House of Commons voted, in principle, in favour of replacing the Lords with an elec

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