SNP Deputy Westminster Leader Pete Wishart will table an amendment to tax peers on their £342 daily allowance.
The SNP is bidding to force Lords to pay income tax on their parliamentary allowance. The party's Deputy Westminster Leader Pete Wishart will table an amendment to tax peers on their £342 daily allowance. The tax-free pay is payable to Members of the House of Lords for any day they turn up in Parliament.
SNP First Minister John Swinney is "actively considering" making it universal in Scotland at the Budget next month. Wishart has also tabled an amendment to abolish the House of Lords. This is a long-standing SNP policy. He urged Scottish Labour MPs to back his bids. Scottish politics “The Labour Party has repeatedly broken its promise to abolish the House of Lords for more than a century and, frankly, this embarrassingly limited bill is 114 years too little, too late. Voters were promised change, but instead Sir Keir Starmer has ripped up his election pledges, and continued stuffing the Lords with Labour Party donors and cronies as it suits him.
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"It is indefensible that, in the twenty-first century, there are seats in our legislature allocated by an accident of birth. This is a long-overdue reform and a progressive first step on the road of change.
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