Sentences with phrase «appointed life peers»

With the exception of some experts, the same is not true of the politically appointed Life Peers who make up the bulk of today's House of Lords.

The founder of the Tory Reform Group, Lord Walker was appointed a life peer after his retirement as an MP in 1992.

Tanni Grey - Thompson won 16 medals as a Paralympian and her activism within sport also saw her appointed a life peer in 2010.

A commercial fraud specialist, Lord Carlile was appointed a life peer in 1999, and has been the government's Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation since 2001.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

With a moratorium on new life peers, 46 new directly elected «senators» would represent barely 6 % of the House, merely a quarter of the number appointed in this parliament and exactly half those there by accident of birth.

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

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

A higher proportion of life peers than MPs are women, and significant numbers of ethnic minority members have been appointed in recent years.

Few of the Lords are heritary peers, most having been appointed by the Prime Minister of the day, and serve for life, rather like the US Supreme Court.