Britain's opposition Labour Party on Monday pledged to scrap Parliament's unelected upper house if it wins government as part of a raft if policies intended to stake out Labour's ground for the next election.
With life peers sitting alongside a smattering of judges, bishops and dozens of remaining hereditary nobles, the Lords currently has about 800 members – making it the second-largest legislative chamber in the world, after China’s National People’s Congress.The idea is among proposals drawn up for the party by Gordon Brown, the U.K.’s last Labour prime minister. Brown, who led the country between 2007 and 2010, recommended giving cities and regions more power to raise and spend money.
Brown said that would help defuse demands for Scottish independence from the Scottish National Party government in Edinburgh. “That’s going to be the debate from now on in – not independence versus the status quo, but change within Britain versus change by leaving Britain,” he said.Starmer said he wanted to implement the proposals within five years of taking office, arguing that the U.K.’s regions were being “held back by a system that hoards power in Westminster.”
“Britain is one of the most centralized systems in Europe and the center has not delivered,” he said at an event in Leeds, northern England. Labour is trying to draw firm lines between itself and the right-of-center Conservative Party, which is on its third prime minister since winning a big majority in 2019 under
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