Exclusive: Labour leader plans a new elected chamber after accusing successive Tory governments of handing peerages to ‘lackeys and donors’
and replace it with a new elected chamber as part of plans to “restore trust in politics”, the Observer understands.leader has told the party’s peers that he wants to strip politicians of the power to make appointments to the Lords as part of the first-term programme of a Labour government. Starmer said that the public’s faith in the political system had been undermined by successive Tory leaders handing peerages to “lackeys and donors”.
Evgeny Lebedev, the Evening Standard’s owner and a friend of Boris Johnson, was controversially handed a peerage in 2020.It comes after a series of rows over peerages. Boris Johnson made a number of controversial appointments, including his friend “I want to be clear that we do need to restore the trust of the public in every part of the United Kingdom in our system of government,” he said. “House of Lords reform is just one part of that … People have lost faith in the ability of politicians and politics to bring about change – that is why, as well as fixing our economy, we need to fix our politics.”
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