Giving his old friend Mr Livingstone a high profile role would see
him granted a peerage despite the former London Mayor calling for the House of Lords to be abolished.
Granted peerage on retirement (so we can still call it the «House of Lords») Each party represented in the Commons then allowed to appoint up to 30 «advocates» to fill front bench rolls for that term.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/12/a-detailed-rebuttal-to-abraham-from-monckton/ Letters Patent
granting peerages, and consequently membership, are the personal gift of the Monarch.
Not exact matches
Subsequently, under the Life
Peerages Act 1958, life peerages became the norm for all new grants outside the Royal Family, this being seen as a modest reform of the nature of the second legislative
Peerages Act 1958, life
peerages became the norm for all new grants outside the Royal Family, this being seen as a modest reform of the nature of the second legislative
peerages became the norm for all new
grants outside the Royal Family, this being seen as a modest reform of the nature of the second legislative chamber.
As with hereditary
peerages, baronetcies generally ceased to be
granted after the Labour Party came to power in 1964.
Conservatives closed ranks around William Hague yesterday amid anger about alleged Labour dirty tricks after the leaking of government documents relating to the
peerage granted to Lord Ashcroft 10 years ago.
Yet the timing appears to be a response to the ruling last month by the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, that the Cabinet Office should release the precise terms of the 2000 agreement on the
granting of the
peerage.
They are created either by writ, i.e. by royal summons to attend the house of peers, or by letters patent, i.e. by royal
grant of any dignity and degree of
peerage; and they enjoy many privileges, exclusive of their senatorial capacity.