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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Heather Stewart Political editor

Labour would scrap House of Lords, says Scottish party leader

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar
Anas Sarwar: ‘The House of Lords as an institution has no place in 21st-century politics.' Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

A Labour government would scrap the House of Lords and create a “senate of the nations and regions” in its place, the Scottish Labour leader has announced.

Giving a speech in Westminster, in which he also ruled out any pact or coalition with Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National party (SNP), Anas Sarwar said: “A central part of the mission of the Labour party must be to renew democracy.

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