• U.K. in Marathon Session on Voting Bill

    LONDON—Makeshift beds and all-night refreshments are being set up in the U.K.'s House of Lords Monday, as peers in the upper chamber continue a marathon session scrutinizing the coalition government's bill to hold a referendum on voting reform.

    Peers from the opposition Labour Party are trying to hold the bill up—a tactic known as a filibuster—because it also involves the redrawing of parliamentary boundaries, which the party says will favour the ruling Conservative Party.

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