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The News Agents

Is the House of Lords indefensible?

The News Agents

Global

Government, News, Daily News, Politics

4.15.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode we launch the Christmas Countdown - our (and your) favourite soundbites of political inanity of 2022.

Please send in the moments you want us to revisit and react to.

But before we get there, we talk about Sir Keir Starmer's plans to abolish the House of Lords and redistribute the economy more faithfully around the country. Is it justifiable to have an unelected upper chamber in 2022? And what would the replacement actually look and sound like? We speak to Baroness Hilary Armstrong, a Labour peer, and Conservative MP Vicky Ford.

Social Media: Georgia Foxwell


Video: Will Gibson-Smith


Production: Gabriel Radus


Deputy Editor: Tom Hughes


Executive Producer: Dino Sofos


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.

0:09.6

This is a global player original podcast. Today we are going to talk about constitutional and

0:16.6

political reform, the democratic deficit, by Camero government, the role of the upper house

0:22.6

reform of the constitution. Gordon Brown has spent a whole 155 pages setting out his views

0:28.7

for Kyr Starmer on it. Someone in America has done it in one paragraph about how you deal

0:36.2

with these issues.

0:38.9

Yeah, you're never going to guess who it is.

0:46.0

He used many capital letters, including the phrase massive and widespread fraud and deception.

0:52.3

And then he talks about the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution,

0:54.9

our great founders did not want and would not condone false and fraudulent elections. Starter for 10. Okay, start of a 10. But what's

1:01.2

your solution to this? You just get rid of the whole of the US Constitution and make me president

1:05.8

again without having to go before the voters. Yeah, turn us upside down and you'll read the answer,

1:10.7

it was Donald Trump.

1:12.4

Today, we're talking about reform UK-style, not US-style.

1:16.8

Welcome to the newsagents.

1:21.1

The Newsagents.

1:23.3

It's John.

1:24.5

It's Emily.

1:25.2

And it's Lewis.

1:26.1

Hurrah.

1:27.1

And we're in Newsagents HQ, and Lewis is back from his travels across the pond.

1:32.3

Well, tell us how the main bureau is looking.

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