Keir Starmer vows to ‘unbind’ Britain from centre that has ‘not delivered’ and scrap House of Lords

Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to “unbind” Britain from a centre that has “not delivered”, as Labour unveiled its blueprint for political and economic devolution.

The party’s leader claimed people are being held back by a “broken model” that “hoards power in Westminster”, with the country “crying out for a new approach”.

Starmer also hit out at Nicola Sturgeon’s plan to make the next general election a “de facto” indyref - claiming the move “stands in the way of common sense”.

Launching Labour’s plan to reform the UK constitution yesterday, Starmer vowed to scrap the House of Lords and hand more powers to Holyrood if elected Prime Minister.

But he insisted the next national vote, which is due to be held in 2024, will be about issues such as the economy, the cost of living crisis and the war in Ukraine - not just independence for Scotland.

Nicola Sturgeon pledged to make the next general election a single issue vote on independence after the Supreme Court ruled that Holyrood does not have the power to hold a second referendum.

Speaking at the launch of Gordon Brown’s Labour report on the UK’s future yesterday Starmer said: “I know Nicola Sturgeon intends to try to change it to an election on something else completely, it isn’t. No amount of discussion by other people is going to change the terms of the General Election. That is what a General Election is all about."

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[richalcat]

Abolishing the House of Lords is about 100th down on the current list of peoples concerns.

[WilliamBruhhh]

What about the fact that you’re housing millions of immigrants many of which are unemployed? You think the taxpayer just…doesn’t care about that?

[richalcat]

Vote for him and you maintain the status quo and get more of the same

[synappticuser]

Why is it, that despite how much Keir says, and he does keep on saying a lot, nothing he says, makes me want to vote Labour!

[judywebster]

"Higher, Wider, Better", Bollocks

[karenhenderson]

Any chance your going to stop the army’s coming in on boats, national security is at risk

[Hebe.mcdavid]

Then he will get in and we’ll get shafted by something we never saw coming

[AntGeezer]

Is this what is know as coming out of left field? Did he have dream about this or was he briefed by Gordon Brown on how to win Scottish votes? Either way, it’s very curious timing to be dropping this…

[geraldjagla]

i do not agree getting rid of the house of lords is not the anwser what what actual plans has starmer got to help all the people in the uk have not heard anything from him on that its time the different political parties started working together on an actual plan that will help all the people of the u, k. instead of blocking each other they should all be working together

[danielvalentine]

They will do exactly whatever the unions tells them to do 🤌£££

[mariachinyerendubuisi]

THAT'S INTERESTING, VERY IMPRESSIVE, SIR. AND THAT IS THE WAY BIAFRANS ARE GOING. WHY THEN DO YOU NOT SUPPORT BIAFRA RESTORATION?

[mickpurcell]

What they say and what they do are 2 different things, just like the torys there as bad as one another they only look after themselves

[edix]

He should go back to the Tory party where he belongs and give us our left wing opposition back.

[mozz]

All these politicians thinks the people are suckers and there right. We are mugs for just sitting back not getting together as one people marching on London an DEMANDING change by any meen necessary.

[richalcat]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

[MassiveHappyClapper]

The Tories have made a royal mess of the country. Worse than anything that has come before it. I will gladly vote Labour as life was never this awful under them

[OrSomeBricks]

If Labour was serious about devolving power, they would deliver One Yorkshire, not make pathetic excuses about boundaries.

[jameswood]

LET THE UK DECIDE ON SCOTLANDS FUTURE IN THE UNION
7 Polls conducted in England only this year asked the question should Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 be allowed to leave the union... Answer .. YES... average 84% in each poll favours Scotland leaving
I'm English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and I'm in favour of Scotland departing the union 🇬🇧..
Rest of the UK will save two billion ££££ a week that currently supports the Scottish government..
We should be given the vote❎ with this clear choice..
Scotland remains part of the Union
Scotland leaves the Union errect a hard coast to coast border wall, close all military bases, withdraw the uk currency and have Scotland repay recent infrastructure budgets that benefited Scotland only..
THAT'S THE QUESTIONS WE NEED TO BE ASKED...

[kalamoon]

He is an absolute sausage The government is not a business and the people are not your stock You are in power to look after the people in this country which you have not done and with proposals like that will never happen

[googlaccount]

We consider the current status-quo the 'centre'? Would these people even know the difference between clockwise and anti-clockwise?