Starmer Shafts His Own Labour Lords in Reform Policy U-Turn – Guido Fawkes

Starmer Shafts His Own Labour Lords in Reform Policy U-Turn

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There is disquiet among Labour and Crossbench peers this week as many who backed the Government’s push to abolish hereditary peers, thinking they would stop there, now find themselves in Starmer’s sights. Never trust a Labour promise…

Dozens of Labour Lords and Crossbenchers, many of whom are over 80 or don’t have the best attendance record, supported Starmer’s move to abolish hereditary peers in the hope that the Government would kick any further reforms into the long grass. AKA, their own seats would be safe. But Starmer’s Leader in the Lords is shafting their own supporters with their latest move…

Labour’s Baroness Smith wrote in The Telegraph yesterday suggesting the government will pursue plans to force peers to retire at 80 years-of-age and punish non-attenders. This won’t end well for Labour’s own backbenchers and crossbench peers. The real story is that the opposition in the Lords is pulling apart Labour’s ill-thought through legislative agenda and proving a real frustration for Starmer. No wonder he is trying to gerrymander the numbers…