LABOUR deserves no credit for the long-delayed abolition of remaining hereditary peers (the majority of these having lost their seats in the House of Lords back in 1999).This was a compromise even then, since Labour had pledged to get rid of them all. Keir Starmer’s stultifying lack of ambition and originality is on show as he touts completion of a half-baked reform started 27 years ago as evidence of his modernising credentials.The country has moved on. Whatever hopes some may have had of an appointed House have long since been dashed.

LABOUR deserves no credit for the long-delayed abolition of remaining hereditary peers (the majority of these having lost their seats in the House of Lords back in 1999).

This was a compromise even then, since Labour had pledged to get rid of them all. Keir Starmer’s stultifying lack of ambition and originality is on show as he touts completion of a half-baked reform started 27 years ago as evidence of his modernising credentials.

The country has moved on. Whatever hopes some may have had of an appointed House have long since been dashed.

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