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The House of Lords recently passed David Cameron’s laws aimed at privatising even more of the NHS. This vote for the controversial laws has increased calls for reforming the House of Lords. Calls further heightened after the resignation of Deputy Speaker John Sewel due to a drugs and hookers scandal.
The second chamber is full of non-elected members, who can delay laws, or pass them.
An investigation by The Daily Mirror has found that a third of Tory peers who voted for the NHS privatisation laws have links to private sector medical companies that could benefit from such privatisation.
A third of Tory Lords equates to 75 peers that the union UNITE has confirmed have strong links to private sector health companies. Therefore it was in their best to pass those laws. None of those peers actually broke any rules as their interests had previously being declared.
However, peers being unelected means that they can vote any way they want to relation to laws, they have no constituents to answer to. UNITE are unhappy that these Tory peers can shape the future of the NHS and make large profits in the process.
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