Chancellor’s Sister Ellie Reeves Decries Family Politics
Cabinet Office minister Ellie Reeves was talking up the benefits of Labour’s peer-ejecting House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill in the Commons today:
“As a matter of principle in the 21st century it cannot be right for there to be places in our legislature reserved for those born into certain families… the aim of this bill is to remove the right of people to sit and make laws in our legislature by virtue of an accident of birth.”
Very Ellie-quent. Her sister Rachel was probably nodding in agreement from the Chancellor’s office, while her husband the ex-MP John Cryer was likely watching from his seat in the Lords. Incidentally both of John’s parents were themselves Labour MPs…
Politics has always been a family business in all parties. Founding member Ramsay MacDonald’s son Malcolm became a Labour MP. Not to mention four generations of Benns…
