He disagreed with Keir Starmer's plan to abolish the Lords but offered to sit down with Labour as it edges towards government.
Asked if he agreed with the plan, Bird said: “No, I mean, I’m a part of the reform of the House of Lords which was brought in in 2001 which was the bringing in people’s peers.
, adding: “I mean what are they doing there? So I can see why a reform or a transformation would be necessary there.” “I would love to see some radicalisation of shaking out the House of Lords and making it much more useful and actually bringing in people who are kind of ordinary.”, adding: “That means you’d have two houses that have power and, if that was the case, they would be fighting each other like they do in America, between the Congress and the Senate.”
“I will seriously sit down with them and say ‘let’s just look at how we can take the predictability of failure taking place where people are failing at school because the parents had problems and social problems and they’ve been born into poverty’.
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