Hereditary peer compares Starmer to China’s Xi as MPs vote to abolish bloodline members

After Labour successfully pushed through a vote in the Commons to reform the House of Lords, Tory hereditary peer Lord Mancroft compared Keir Starmer to China’s President Xi, accusing him of seeking authoritarian powers. The government’s victory in the Lords reform legislation sparked backlash, with Tory shadow Cabinet Office minister Alex Burghart criticizing the move as an attempt to “gerrymander” the House of Lords membership. Conservative peer Lord Dobbs referred to the removal of hereditary peers as “constitutional clickbait,” while Labour peer Lord Grocott argued that wholesale reform of the upper chamber would be detrimental.

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