Sentences with phrase «british peerage»

There's a keen, biting edge to these crystalline recollections; by the third episode, «Some Hope,» which takes place in a labyrinthine mansion during a country aristocrat's party, Patrick Melrose is turning the refined and dazzling world of British peerage on its ear.

Can Donations Buy You a British Peerage?

Who, indeed, recalls the ermine - trimmed arguments that the British peerage produced to kill off Nick Clegg's plan for an elected House of Lords in 2012?

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In the 1960s, Roy Thomson had some justifiable claim to a peerage as a Canadian and later British publisher.

The billionaire described how he had renegotiated an undertaking he gave as a condition of his peerage to become a full British resident to allow him to retain his non-dom status and avoid paying tax on his substantial international earnings.

Former top civil servant Hayden Phillips is conducting a review into party funding at the government's request, after the cash for peerages row raised concerns about the influence wealthy businessmen were having on British political parties.

Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (Hereditary) and also Baron Shepherd of Spalding (Life Peerage)(27 September 1918 — 5 April 2001), was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

Marie van der Zyl, vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: «This «whitewash for peerages» is a scandal that surely raises serious questions about the integrity of Ms Chakrabarti, her inquiry and the Labour leadership.»

Just weeks ago, Marie van der Zyl, vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said Chakrabarti was responsible for a «whitewash for peerages».