tom strathclyde, lord strathclyde, former leader of the house of lords, 92 of you survived the last culld of the road. >> well, i very much like your introduction because you laid out exactly what the problem is that the hereditaries got kicked out at the end of the last century, 92 were sent behind and all the blairites did was to stuff the house with their cronies, with their placemen. and that's what they're going to do. again, it is too rich a target. and so they want to get rid of 40 odd conservatives, 30 odd crossbenchers and, and, and that's the opposition. and then they will replace them with their own people. i fully expect 50 new peers to be created over the next few months by starmer and his gang . that's why it's and his gang. that's why it's important. and then we will never get the kind of proper reform that would really serve the interests of this country. >> i mean, clearly you'd like to stay in the house of lords. you've been a very active member of it and held senior position in it. but if we are going to have a wholesale reform or a reform of the house of lords, what d

strathclyde, sir john curtice.asure to have you on the show. so you wrote an excellent piece in the telegraph yesterday evening called the writing is already on the wall for labour's floundering government. you talk about sir keir starmer's lovelace landslide already evaporating away. tell us more . away. tell us more. >> yeah, i think to some degree you're quoting the headlines rather than necessarily what i wrote. but anyway , the crucial i wrote. but anyway, the crucial i was making two crucial points that perhaps are underappreciated. the first is that despite labour's very large parliamentary majority , they parliamentary majority, they only got 35% of the vote outside of scotland . their share of the of scotland. their share of the vote barely increased, and it looks as though the principal motivation as to why voters voted for them is not because they had fallen in love with laboun they had fallen in love with labour, but rather they were keen to get rid of the conservatives. and at least in constituencies w

one of them, a 92 year old former leader of the lords, tory lord strathclyde, condemned the move as aery much, olivia. great stuff. thank you. coming up in the show, we'll have more on downing street possibly facing an inquiry following the leak of state pension data. stick with us. i'm ben leo on gb news. britain's news hello. welcome back. hope you're well . welcome back. hope you're well. i'm ben leo on gb news covering for martin daubney this afternoon . now downing street afternoon. now downing street could be subject to an inquiry following the leak of state pension data. reports emerged yesterday that the full state pension will be boosted by more than £400 a year, but now the conservatives have raised concerns with the statistics watchdog that number 10 was responsible for giving out sensitive labour market figures. but what could this this leak mean for your pensions, your bank account and your wallet? let's speak to the pension expert at financial consultancy the lang cat, tom mcphail. tom, thank you for joining the lang cat, tom mcphail. tom, thank you forjoining me. first