PM Sir Keir Starmer is under fire for creating even more unelected peers. It means he's now overseen 96 new members of the House of Lords since entering Number 10 The move has been criticised (Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Sir Keir Starmer is under fire for stuffing the “bloated” House of Lords with even more unelected peers.

The Prime Minister announced a new list of 25 Labour peerages in the chamber – handing jobs for life to his cronies and former advisers. It means Sir Keir has now overseen the creation of 96 peers since becoming PM – more than the 92 hereditary peers he is removing from the Lords.

Darren Hughes, Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society, criticised the move and said: “Keir Starmer himself not long ago described the wholly unelected and grossly

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