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TyskySour: Labour’s Plan to Abolish House of Lords

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer has today committed Labour to abolishing the House of Lords. How radical will Labour be when it comes to the UK constitution? Plus, Nadhim Zahawi hits a new low and we ask Aghileh Djafari-Marbini if Iran will follow through with disbanding the morality police. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani. __________________________________________ Support Novara […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to a Monday night edition of Tisky Sour. We are talking about Keir Starmer's plan

0:09.7

to abolish the House of Lords as he now are anti-establishment hero. I'll be asking Aaron

0:16.0

Bistani, Aaron, how are you doing? I'm really well, Michael. I'm energized by the news that perhaps

0:22.2

Keir Starmer is indeed the radical liberal principled voice that we need to renew this country's

0:29.0

constitutional order. What is he? Mm, enticing, tantalizing there. We're also going to be talking

0:36.7

about the latest from Iran. Have they announced they're abolishing the morality police?

0:41.1

Or was that some misreporting? We'll discuss that. Nadim Zahawi has also said some ridiculous

0:46.4

things. And Keir Starmer has said some ridiculous things about Jeremy Corbyn. Keir Starmer has unveiled

0:52.0

a new plan to reform the UK's constitution. The plan pledges to tackle regional inequalities by

0:57.2

creating a legal requirement for Parliament to respect the wishes of local governments,

1:01.5

and it proposes to abolish the House of Lords. The proposals have been two years in the making

1:07.2

and are contained in the report of Labour's Commission on the UK's future which was led by Gordon

1:12.1

Brown. Here's Starmer announcing its launch at a press conference earlier today. I asked them to

1:18.4

put together proposal for the biggest ever transfer of power from Westminster to the British people.

1:26.1

So that if Labour wins the next election Britain will see a change not just in who governs

1:33.6

but how we are governed. The tools to a fairer society and a stronger economy placed directly

1:41.7

in the hands of working people. So together we can build an economy not just for the many

1:48.7

but by the many and of the many. Now redistribution is a good thing but it's not a one-word plan for

1:58.9

a fair society or a strong economy. By empowering our towns, cities, regions and nations to work

2:07.3

together on local growth plans Labour will reignite our economy, new powers over skills,

2:14.5

transport, planning and culture, all helping to drive growth by developing hundreds of clusters

2:21.2

of economic activity. Labour will rebuild trust by reforming the centre of government,

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