Sentences with phrase «kottick of peerage»

Have you stripped him of his peerage?

A substantial donor does not strike a deal: instead there is a reasonable and unspoken expectation of a peerage.

Ed Miliband recognises Doreen Lawrence's commitment to race issues by including her in new list of peerages

In the 1920s David Lloyd George was involved in a barely concealed «cash for patronage» scandal managed by Maundy Gregory, which resulted in the 1925 Act which barred this (purchase of peerages had not previously been illegal).

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.

Family values and hints at good Christian morality are often used to thinly veil misogyny and it affects a small but significant number of peerages in the House of Lords that are still only open to be filled by men bishops.

Complicating things still further are the demands of his critics that Rennard be expelled or deprived of his peerage.

«These are promises that were made in respect of a peerage that was given, and now tax has not been paid and instead it's been given to the Conservative party for the general election fund.»

18 September 2003: Britain's first constitutional affairs secretary, and likely last lord chancellor, Lord Falconer, announces government plans to expel the remaining 92 hereditary peers from the upper house «when parliamentary time allows» and strip anyone who has ever committed a criminal offence, including Archer, of their peerages.

As the law stands, I can not divest myself of my peerage.»

A: We do not know for how long Lord Ashcroft has enjoyed non-dom status, and whether he did before or after his letter to William Hague and his acceptance of a peerage, though it is difficult to believe he would have sought a reinterpretation of «permanent» as long term for many other reasons.

Maurice Glassman's acceptance of a peerage is a coup for Ed Miliband given how hard the Tories have courted London Citizens, the community organising group that Glassman works with.

The Peerage Act 1963, allowing renunciation of peerages, became law on 31 July 1963 and just 22 minutes later he became the first peer to renounce his title.

The succession brings the story of the peerage almost full circle.

This prevented an offer of a peerage at the time.

It really stinks that Cameron's latest list of peerages includes so many Tory party donors like the Asian jewellery tycoon who either personally or through his company has made 20 donations to the Tories in the last six years, and the Tory co-treasurer who has donated over # 2.3 million to the party.

He accused David Cameron of being «obsessed with PR», the party claimed that he had been asking for a peerage, but he counter-claimed that the party had actually been wooing him with the offer of a peerage.

It emerged earlier today Hague kept Cameron in the dark for at least a month after he learned that Ashcroft had renegotiated the terms of his peerage and acquired non-dom status.

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.

An undisputed member of the peerage of the automotive aristocracy, Aston Martin boasts a history going all the way back to 1913, when its parent company was founded by Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin as Bamford & Martin Ltd..

Information on the composition of the House of Lords is available in Lords by party and type of peerage.

«Sir, — I should perhaps confirm for the avoidance of doubt that, as my title implies, I am a Peer of the Realm, a member of the House of Lords or House of Peers or upper House of the UK Legislature, and a member of the Peerage of the United Kingdom, albeit without the right to sit or vote (a right which I do not pretend to possess).

which apparently serves a Governmental Function not unlike; but also apparently not like the US Senate; and a broader category of persons who are members of the Peerage in some fashion; in Lord Monckton's case, being a Hereditary Viscount.

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.

Named vice-president is Don Kottick of Peerage Realty Partners in Toronto.

Not exact matches

Originally composed only of hereditary peerage (the dukes, the marquesses, the earls, etc), it was once the most powerful part of parliament.

Bishops of Oxford don't usually get a peerage on their retirement: but you can see why the government gave one to a useful chap like Richard Harries.

David Young - Baron Young of Graffham1984 - 1985Shortly after receiving a life peerage, Young was appointed Minister without Portfolio to advise the Thatcher government on unemployment issues.

In his resignation honours list, he also treated several of his top advisers to life peerages and CBEs.

He had been tipped for a peerage, despite being photographed with a dossier of the coalition's broken promises outside No 10 last year.

When police started investigating the links between peerages and donations to political parties, it looked like a scandal that might topple a prime minister and hasten wholesale reform of Parliament's upper chamber.

Sugg, awarded a CBE last year for her service, was another spad to get an honour in the wake of Cameron's departure, being given a life peerage.

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.

On the reform of the Upper Chamber it did little more than transform a mixed hereditary and appointed Peerage into what is now a mainly appointed one.

Technically Home, was PM while not a member of parliament between the time he resigned his peerage and when he was elected as an MP.

This «whitewash for peerages» is a scandal that surely raises serious questions about the integrity of Ms Chakrabarti, her inquiry and the Labour leadership.»

Both women were appointed in the wake of the 1958 Life Peerages Act despite the opposition of one or two peers who should have known better.

«The Labour party has sponsored a culture of Cash for Influence, and has promoted unelectable individuals to the peerage so as to get them into the Cabinet.

And Derek Draper and Damian McBride have been creating it in large quantities, and they're by no means the first or the most obvious examples, given the loans - for - peerages scandal, various bits of chicanery around the Iraq war and subsequent investigations (e.g. David Kelly), ministerial expense fraud (or at least it would be fraud if you or I tried the same thing on our tax returns), pretty much anything to do with Peter Mandelson and the various leaks, briefings and spin cycles that have characterised the Labour party for the last fifteen years.

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Former cabinet ministers have also tended to move into the upper chamber, although that has not always been the case; Jack Straw, who was cleared of breaching rules, concerning cash - for - access allegations, was not nominated for a peerage in 2016.

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.

It is true that the Prime Minister is re-inventing the political knighthood, and that the collapse of Lords reform opens up the prospect of more peerages, but patronage has taken a hit, and Downing Street has come late to using what it has.

They over saw «a house of experts», where business chums, think tank experts, ex-MPs and scientists were given peerages.

Their decision stated that while peerages may have been given in exchange for loans, it could not find direct evidence that that had been agreed in advance; this direct evidence of an agreement in advance is what would be required for a successful prosecution.

A former Labour general secretary seen as a hate figure by many on the left wing of the party has been given a peerage by Jeremy Corbyn.

The authors of the most exhaustive study of the link between donations and peerages ever undertaken say it is high time for the reform of the Lords

In March 2006, several men nominated for life peerages by then Prime Minister Tony Blair [1] were rejected by the House of Lords Appointments Commission.

«I will be recommending that we should be able to take a range of actions as necessary, including being able to suspend peers immediately while an investigation is being carried out, longer periods of suspension if cases are proven, and even consider the option not of removing peerages -[that is] not in the gift of the House - but of even longer and perhaps permanent exclusions in extreme cases.

In addition, it recommended greater clarity between giving out a life peerage as an honour and as a qualification for membership of the House of Lords.