‘New, smaller, democratically elected’: Starmer shares plan to replace House of Lords

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The Labour leader was joined by the former prime minister Gordon Brown in Leeds on Monday to unveil plans to overhaul the UK constitution, including abolishing the House of Lords. Starmer, who previously described the Lords as ‘indefensible’, said it would be replaced with a ‘new, smaller, democratically elected second chamber, not only less expensive, but representing the regions and the nations of the United Kingdom’

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