Sentences with phrase «labour peers»

The Sunday Times claimed yesterday that four Labour peers, including Lord Taylor of Blackburn, were prepared to change the law for cash.

Lady Royall told the BBC she had spoken to the four Labour peers concerned and would be «pursuing the matter with utmost vigour».

Labour peers were encouraged to abstain from a vote which would remove CMP from the bill entirely unless the JCHR amendments passed.

The figure of 52 wannabe Labour peers does not include the ranks of the as yet unennobled past or present cabinet ministers of the post-1997 era.

In 1999, for example, immediately before most hereditary peers [6] were removed by the House of Lords Act, there were 350 Conservative hereditary peers, compared with 19 Labour peers and 23 Liberal Democrat peers.

In comparison, Labour peers are on tape offering to amend legislation for cash.

Labour peers have been told to abstain on this amendment, which means the government can be reasonably confident that it will be able to vote it down, but, as the Observer reported at the weekend, more than 40 Labour peers are expected to defy the whip and vote with Alli.

It looks as if many Labour peers defied party orders telling them to abstain.

And carried despite Labour Peers being told to abstain!

Corbyn will of course allow the Labour Peers - all Appointed - to Vote Against Brexit the policy which has an overwhelming Democratic Cross Party Support of the Electorate.

It's clear why Labour peers fought so hard against this Bill.

There are also many Labour peers who rather like the Lords as it is and do not want it to change.

This list includes 1 in 6 Labour peers, not to mention former parliamentarians David Miliband, Alan Milburn, and Patricia Hewitt, among others.

Labour peers have orchestrated a delay to stop the referendum happening in May.

He quotes Labour peers who are unhappy with the policy.

But she said the Strathclyde review and its recommendations «were an absurd overreaction and completely unnecessary», and insisted Labour peers would not seek to block Brexit.

Liberal Democrat and Labour peers, along with Tory peer Baroness Wheatcroft, are expected to lodge amendments calling for the Government to shed more light on its negotiating priorities.

Labour peers have forced a number of government climbdowns this parliament, including George Osborne's decision to scrap planned cuts to working tax credits.

He told Andrew Neil the vote on bringing in the AV system could be postponed as Labour peers are holding up the progress of the bill which would enable it to happen.

By contrast, Ed Miliband will get just ten new Labour peers.

They are focusing on the two Labour peers who allegedly told the Sunday Times that they had used their influence to help change legislation in return for payments in the past.

More than 80 Labour peers last week defied the party whip to back an amendment to the Government's flagship Brexit bill which called for EEA membership.

In the Lords» vote, Labour peers will have to overturn a coalition majority of 40 to have a chance of blocking the government's education proposals.

It is beginning to look as if Labour peers, led by Lord Falconer, could wreck government plans for a spring referendum by insisting on detailed scrutiny in the Lords — where time is running out.

The Labour peers have warned the government not to start a new confrontation between the Lords and the Commons over the issue, and to avoid invoking the Parliament Act to get the clause on the statute book.

As a compromise, Labour peers want Brown to set up a working group to examine the best way to fight terrorism and safeguard civil liberties without resorting to an extension of the present 28 - day detention without trial.

Labour Peers are not trying to stop the AV referendum which ought to be in a separate bill anyway.

Lord Kinnock - who was among the Labour peers who voted for the amendment - said opposition to the EEA was based on «infantile leftist illusion».

The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, said this demand was «beyond parody», given that Labour peers recently voted against an amendment to the article 50 bill in the House of Lords that would have required the government to keep the UK in the single market.

Along with three other Labour peers, Lord Moonie was approached by a reporter.

Some 83 Labour peers this week rebelled against Mr Corbyn to support an amendment to the Government's flagship EU Withdrawal Bill which called for the UK to join Norway in the EEA.

In the same debate, two other newly - ennobled Labour peers — Spencer Livermore and Dawn Primarolo - also gave their maiden speeches.

Labour peers tweeted last night about the novelty of voting with diehard Tory grandees like Brian Mawhinney and ex-social security minister Tony Newton.

Conservatives are completely outnumbered by Lib Dem and Labour peers in the second chamber.

A further two Labour peers, Lords Snape and Moonie, indicated to the journalists that they were prepared to use their influence to help clients.

This is an edited transcript of the conversation alleged to have taken place between an undercover Sunday Times reporter and one of the Labour peers accused of offering to use his influence to deliver an amendment to legislation

Lord Hunt was among some 51 Labour peers who defied their party's order to abstain and backed the plans.

The filibustering by Labour peers of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill is having two unintended side - effects of importance to the future of political reform.

Labour peers, led by the former cabinet minister Peter Hain, duly put down such an amendment.

Most Labour peers stayed away.

He also says that he and his fellow Labour peers might as well be on the other side of the world for all the contact they have with Jeremy Corbyn.

Incoming Labour peers include ex-ministers Tessa Jowell, David Blunkett, Peter Hain and Alistair Darling.

Labour peers in the House of Lords, which the bill has already cleared, were whipped into supporting the bill and all government amendments.

The public overwhelmingly perceive Labour peers to be more corrupt than their Tory or Lib Dem counterparts, according to a politics.co.uk poll released today.

Labour peers table amendment to set up committee to consider changes in how trade unions donate to parties amid funding fears

Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit strategy has come under fire after he ordered Labour peers to abstain on a key vote seeking to keep Britain in the European...

However more than 80 Labour peers last week defied the party whip by backing an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill which would keep Britain in the European Economic Area.

He said Labour peers would do all they could to limit the bill's effects.

It would be made up of four Conservative peers, four Labour peers, two Lib Dem peers and two cross-bench peers.

Tony Blair created 111 new Labour peers in his first four years in Downing Street and our guess is that Mr Cameron may preside over a not dissimilar increase in the number of Conservative members of the Lords.