Sentences with phrase «conservative life peers»

Of the 11 new Conservative life peers, seven were former Cabinet members who had served under Mrs Thatcher.

Earlier this afternoon I wrote about the 14 new Conservative Life Peers who have been appointed to the Lords.

Claudia Beamish is the daughter of the Conservative life peer Tufton Victor Hamilton Beamish, Baron Chelwood and his first wife Janet McMillan Stevenson.

In 2001, he was made a Conservative life peer.

Not exact matches

Feldman also happens to be a life peer and former Conservative party chairman.

It is a matter of established fact that Tony Blair created more life peers than any of his predecessors: the government maintained, however, that the predominance of Labour supporters among their numbers was justified in balancing out the historic Conservative dominance in the Upper House.

Included in the announced list were new «working peers»: 31 new Labour life peers recommended by Tony Blair to reduce the Tory majority; Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, recommended 11 new Liberal Democrat life peers; five were recommended by William Hague, the new Conservative Leader.

Conservative MP Sir Patrick Cormack has laid his own proposals which would see all members except bishops and archbishops created life peers, with no elected members.

There are currently 225 Labour hereditary and life peers, 212 Conservatives, 90 Lib Dems and 176 cross-benchers.

On 19 November 2010, it was announced that Flight was to be created a life peer and would sit as a Conservative in the House of Lords.

The Liberal Democrats currently have 101 peers but only eight MPs, while the Conservative Party, which has an overall majority in the Commons, has has fewer life peers than the Labour Party.

In the UK, Sebastian (now Lord) Coe went from leading track - and - field athlete to Conservative politician and life peer in the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m record.

Lord Ashcroft is not merely the biggest single bankroller of the Conservatives, but also their influential vice-chair and a peer entitled to write the laws by which the rest of us must live.

This was achieved not through luck or amazing skill, but simply by living a lifestyle about 50 % less expensive than most of our peers and investing the surplus in very boring conservative Vanguard index funds and a rental house or two.