Remainer Andrew Lloyd Webber accuses peers of frustrating ‘the will of the people’ over Brexit
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Legendary composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has accused peers of frustrating the “will of the people” over their stance on Brexit.
Mr Lloyd Webber quit as a Conservative peer last year, citing work commitments.
But today he hit out at the Upper Chamber over its involvement in the Brexit process, saying it had become increasingly politicised and was standing in the way of voters' wishes.
He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show: “I do not think you can possibly be part of an unelected House and vote against the will of the people. That seems to me to be wrong.”
He added: “I, myself, felt that the House of Lords had become really very political.
“I joined it 20 years ago, I was put in then, and it was a very different place. I’m not a politician. Ultimately I’m a composer.”
The Lords inflicted 15 defeats on the Government’s landmark EU Withdrawal Bill, which will return to the Commons this month.
Mr Lloyd Webber has previously warned against Brexit, and spoke out against it in his final speech in the Upper House in July last year.
He said: “By quitting Europe, I fear that we are hastening Putin’s dream of the break-up of the EU – and with it, potentially, Western civilisation.”
