Labour plans to axe all hereditary peers from the House of Lords, reports have suggested.
But the 92 hereditary lords who sit in Parliament’s upper chamber would still be allowed to retain their access to the Palace of Westminster as a sweetener, the Financial Times has reported.
This would allow them to still enjoy access to Parliament’s bars and subsidised restaurants.
Labour has previously vowed to abolish the unelected upper chamber of Parliament, with Sir Keir Starmer having branded it “undemocratic”.
It’s worse than that - they rowed back on fully reforming the House of Lords, this is just binning hereditary peers, all the others get to stay. So it’s the same mess, just with slightly fewer leeches hang off it.
They have the opportunity to make a sweeping change and show people there’s a different way of doing democracy. They aren’t taking that though.
sigh