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More peers added to bloated Lords as campaigners demand reform
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MORE peers have been added to the bloated Lords in a dissolution list, raising demands from campaigners to reform the unelected chamber.

Outgoing prime minister Rishi Sunak handed peerages to former Tory leader Theresa May, Sir Graham Brady and his chief of staff in the list.

Among Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s nominations for peerages were Blair-era foreign secretary Dame Margaret Beckett, and veteran Labour MPs Harriet Harman and Dame Margaret Hodge.

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