Over the weekend #KeirStarmer abandoned plans to abolish the House of Lords, and now will merely seek some 'reforms' in the first Parliament of a Labour administration.
I assume that the increasingly narrow, substance-free #election manifesto is part of the remnants of any #green policy.
Its thinness is going to saving them a fortune in printing & paper!
Starmer may be adhering to the maxim "Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself".
Just as many would support abolishing the House of Lords, many other folks would like a House of Lords bursting with erudite experts, motivated solely by the best interests of the UK populace, who they trust more than politicians to write the laws that will govern future generations.
To be sure Johnson's abominable decision to put Lebedev in the Lords ought to put the kibosh on anyone who so believes voting conservative, but the background around Lebedev's wealth received precious little media attention.
Nevertheless; from Starmer's view, courting controversy when he is not required to do so would be a strategically poor choice.
The dubious relationship between Boris Johnson and the Lord of Siberia.
The former British prime minister appointed Evgeny Lebedev, the son of a former KGB officer turned oligarch, to the House of Lords, against the advice of the intelligence services, who were convinced of links between the Lebedev family and the Kremlin.