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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
John Rentoul

Voices: You can’t demand seats in the Lords and still be an establishment rebel, Mr Farage

As soon as Nigel Farage wrote to Keir Starmer demanding that the prime minister allow him to make some nominations to the House of Lords, I reached for my well-thumbed copy of Reform’s “contract” with the voters at the last election.

In its first 100 days, the document says, a Reform government would start to “replace the crony-filled House of Lords with a much smaller, more democratic second chamber”.

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