Sentences with phrase «labour life peer»

Economist and Labour life peer I have seen seven Labour leaders come and six go - Wilson, Callaghan, Foot, Kinnock, Smith and Blair.

Patricia Scotland, Labour life peer since 1997, became the first female black QC, and the youngest since Pitt the Younger, at 35 in 1991.

Bryony Worthington is an environmental campaigner and Labour life peer.

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.

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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.

Political economist and life peer Your question is based on the assumption that Labour will lose the next election.

Writer, broadcaster and life peer I'm in at least four minds as to who should be the next Labour leader.

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

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.

The seat had become vacant when the constituency's long - serving Labour Member of Parliament (MP), Reginald Sorensen, was made a life peer on 15 December 1964.

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.

But she was among three peers appointed by the Labour leader this week and will be entitled to a # 300 - a-day allowance each day she attends the upper chamber for the rest of her life.

Most members are life peers, well over half of whom were appointed after Labour took office in 1997.

Broadcaster and Labour peer Joan Bakewell lives in a house in trendy Primrose Hill, North London, which she bought for # 12,000 half a century ago, but it is now worth more than # 4million.

His father was a civil engineer and his mother a civil servant, later a life peer and Labour Minister for Health in Harold Wilson's government and local government ombudsman.

Lord Bach held a succession of ministerial posts while Labour were in government between 1998, when he was created a life peer, and leaving office after the general election defeat in May 2010.