#NEW Gordon Brown has warned in the @guardian that Boris Johnson is planning to "legitimise straightforward bribery" by "filling" the House of Lords "with his cronies".
The ex-PM has seen a leaked document from CT Group - run by key Johnson adviser Lynton Crosby... Thread 👇
The ex-PM has seen a leaked document from CT Group - run by key Johnson adviser Lynton Crosby... Thread 👇
According to Brown, the draft plan would see "39 to 50 new Tory peers" added to the Lords.
It "includes an extraordinary requirement that each new peer sign away their right to make their own judgment on legislation that comes before them".
It "includes an extraordinary requirement that each new peer sign away their right to make their own judgment on legislation that comes before them".
The leaked paper suggests that a "useful cover from any media backlash" would be to claim that the aim is to redress the north-south balance in the Lords - where the South East is overrepresented.
Gordon Brown ends with:
"The abolition of the current House of Lords was one of the 10 commitments Keir Starmer made when assuming the Labour party leadership. Now Boris Johnson and Lynton Crosby have handed him the strongest possible case for long overdue reform."
"The abolition of the current House of Lords was one of the 10 commitments Keir Starmer made when assuming the Labour party leadership. Now Boris Johnson and Lynton Crosby have handed him the strongest possible case for long overdue reform."
Read the full story: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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