Hereditary peers are a lazy scapegoat for what is essentially a failure of government policy. No lawyers I have spoken to (including trade unionists) think day-one unfair dismissal is sensible or workable, whatever union general secretaries might say in public. Six months would work.

there is a miserablist streak in the party that is upset that the wrong people were voting labour well since 1997 - it’s why it feels like we were fighting for Jim Callaghan’s second term.