Keir Starmer reveals plan to abolish the House of Lords if he becomes PM

Sir Keir Starmer has announced plans to abolish the House of Lords and replace it with an elected chamber if he becomes prime minister.

’ and would see his party hold a consultation on the size and composition of a new chamber ahead of the next election.

‘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,’ Sir Keir said. It comes amid criticism of the over-inflated size of the House of Lords, along with the quality of its appointees. Johnson also courted controversy in 2020 when he awarded a peerage to media mogul Evgeny Lebvedev, the son of Russian Oligarch and ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebvedev.Lebvedev’s appointment was initially put on holdThere are currently 784 unelected peers in the Lords, compared to the 650 MPs in the House of Commons.

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