Keir Starmer rams House of Lords with Labour 'cronies' despite vowing to abolish chamber
Prime Minister Keir Starmer will stuff the House of Lords with Labour allies as the full list of peerages approved by King Charles has now been revealed.
Among the long list of names can be found key aids and prominent Labour apparatchiks, including Sir Keir’s former communications director Matthew Doyle.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Chief of Staff, Katie Martin, will also receive a peerage. Carol Linforth OBE, the Labour Party as a whole’s Chief of Staff, has also been nominated for the Lords.
The raft of appointments comes as the Prime Minister had initially pledged to abolish the Lords in favour of an elected chamber.
In recent months, he has moved to more gradual reforms like phasing out hereditary peers and introducing mandatory retirement at 80.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch joined the Prime Minister in appointing allies, putting forward former Conservative cabinet member Sir John Redwood for the Lords.
Last week, a Conservative party source slammed the list as: “Union paymasters, Labour apparatchiks and those responsible for this Government's disasters all being handed rewards tells you everything you need to know about Keir Starmer.”
“While the British public is suffering from the dire impacts of his and Rachel Reeves's economic mismanagement, it's more cronyism and more reward for failure from this government. Shameful,” they told the Daily Mail.
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