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Starmer accused of ‘stuffing’ House of Lords with allies before axing hereditary peers

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Sir Keir Starmer has appointed 37 Labour life peers to his party's benches in his first 200 days .

Hereditary Peers Bill will see 45 Tories booted out of the House of Lords , 33 crossbenchers and just four Labour peers.

Critics have claimed that ridding the Upper Chamber of so many Conservatives is nothing to do with reform’.