Kezia Dugdale has called for the abolishing the House of Lords and replacing it with an elected second chamber.
Dugdale deems it a “democratic outrage” that the second chamber is an unelected House of Lords and slams Labour for allowing its “reforming spirit” to be “replaced by a small “c” conservatism”. Citing Labour’s successes – such as establishing and strengthening the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh, Northern Irish and London assemblies – Dugdale writes that the case for a democratically elected second chamber is “unanswerable”.
But the Scottish Labour leader contenders argues that this second chamber “can’t be in London”. She says she’ll campaign for it to be based in Glasgow because it’s “the biggest city of a nation” that is “bristling with political energy, art, culture, deep-rooted poverty and grand history.”
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