Keir Starmer pledges to 'abolish the House of Lords' as Prime Minister

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Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to abolish the House of Lords and replace it with an elected chamber if he becomes Prime Minister.

The Labor leader has said he would adopt the plan to "restore faith in politics", according to The Observer.

He told his party peers at a meeting the week last that he wanted to transfer power from politicians to the people by allowing them to vote on who to appoint to the upper house, the newspaper reported.

Sir Keir is quoted as saying: 'I want to be clear on the fact that we need to restore public confidence in every part of the UK in our system of government.

"Reforming the House of Lords is only part of this... The people have lost faith in the ability of politicians and politics to bring about change - which is why, in addition to fixing our economy, we need to fix our pol itic.

Labour must consult on the size of the elected chamber, its composition and how members will be appointed before including final decisions in its manifesto ahead of the next election.

< p>Currently, there are 784 peers in the Lords. There are 650 MPs in the House of Commons.

The House of Lords, where peers review and change legislation (PA Wire)

Sir Keir added that the upper house should be "truly representative" of the nations of the UK, and that his proposals would ensure that he was responsible for amending and scrutiny of bills - and would not replace any of the Commons' duties.

The pledge comes after news broke that Boris Johnson is seeking to hand peerages to four Tory MPs on his resignation list.

Alok Sharma, the outgoing Cop26 president, is among the 20 or so nominees, alongside Scottish secretary Alister Jack and ex-ministers Nadine Dorries and Nigel Adams, it seems.< /p>

Two very young Johnson assistants, Ross Kempsell, 30, and Charlotte Owen, late twenties, were also...