MPs are today set to scrap the use of the term "strangers" when describing visitors to the House of Commons.

A special debate is expected to approve plans to update parliamentary language, including the controversial term which has been accused of alienating the public.

"This is the last impression we should be wanting to give to people who exercise their democratic right to visit what is, after all, their parliament and whose taxes pay for all that goes on here," the Commons modernisation committee report recommends.