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No sign of him shutting down
The House Of Lords. As PM Starmer said, he would.


[Keir Starmer appoints 25 Labour peers to strengthen
support in House of Lords

Labour says appointments needed
to balance upper house, and chooses
former advisers to No 10 and the chancellor]



[Labour’s list includes Michael Barber,
a Whitehall veteran who led Tony Blair’s delivery
unit and now advises Starmer,
and Len Duvall, the chair of the London assembly.
The move brings the number of peers appointed
by Starmer to 62.
This includes a tranche of 30 peers announced
Last December, and seven who have been
created so that they can
take up ministerial roles.

The decision is likely to draw criticism from
electoral reform campaigners who argue
that the appointment process is undemocratic
and used by prime ministers to reward their allies.]


https://www.theguardian.com/politics...house-of-lords