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Labour’s Yvette Cooperwhich claims some people who were Labour MPs– up until parliament was dissolved last week – could be elevated to the House of Lords if they gave up their seats.She told Sky News ’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips: “No party can do that, it’s not the way the system works.”denies reports that party leader Sir Keir Starmer has promised seats in the House of Lords to Labour MPs, so that they could stand aside for hand-picked candidates.
He also said that the decision around Abbott was up to the party’s national executive committee, and not him.Abbott is yet to confirm whether she will represent the party and said she will not be making a comment until she is officially endorsed by Labour’s National Executive Committee next week.Cooper also told Phillips on Sunday that she assumes Abbott will be the Labour candidate for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, the seat she has held since 1987.
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