Labour should pledge to abolish the House of Lords as part of a package of measures to shake up the constitution, the leading Corbynite contender for the party leadership has said.

Rebecca Long Bailey said that the unelected second chamber was symptomatic of the “Westminster bubble” where power lay far from the communities that Labour needed to win back. The shadow business secretary also said she would not stand in the way of another Scottish independence referendum but was committed to the Union.

Today is the deadline for leadership candidates to get nominations from at least 22 MPs or MEPs to go forward to the next stage of the process. So far Ms Long Bailey, Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips have the