Next week the Brexit battle moves to the House of Lords when peers begin debating the EU Withdrawal Bill.On this week’s Ayes to the Left podcast we talk to Angela Smith, the Labour leader in the Lords, on how peers will approach the Bill.

Baroness Smith says the Lords will not see to wreck the legislation but they will try to amend it.

She explains that MPs in the Commons want the Bill amended and she talks through the areas where the Government could face trouble.

These include improving the legislation to protect workers’ and environmental rights and stopping ministers from getting controversial powers which they could use without any checks.

Lady Smith says she is braced for a backlash from the right-wing press but says that will not stop the peers from doing there job.

Talking to the Mirror’s Kevin Maguire and Jason Beattie she also speaks about the levels of abuse in politics.

Almost all her female colleagues have received death threats, she says. 

And she talks about the need for the Lords to reform, how she hates wearing ermine and her journey from a council house in Essex to a seat at the establishment table. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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