The former prime minister has also insisted there will be a ban on second jobs for MPs if Labour wins the next election - though he indicated there could be an exemption to that for those MPs who need to work to maintain professional qualifications such as doctors and lawyers.
said the new second chamber Labour proposes would have a"role in protecting the devolution settlement", seeking to prevent the Sewell Convention - which states Westminster should not normally legislate in areas reserved to the devolved governments without their consent - being"overridden".He added that he believes the issue of House of Lords reform will"come to a head again" when Boris Johnson reveals his resignations honours list.
"Whether it's the reforms in this report or more generally, it is realistically going to take more than one term for Labour to turn our country around," the Labour leader told The Sunday Times. But Tory peer Lord Norton has urged caution over"Big Bang reform" to parliament's second chamber after suggestions it should replaced with elected representatives.Starmer's dig over private school tax stirs up hornet's nest that could leave him stung
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