Sentences with phrase «between peerages»

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.

Reformed second chamber should be 80 per cent or 100 per cent elected Bishops should not retain reserved places in a 100 per cent elected House Link between a peerage and place in the second chamber should be broken Government should not hold a majority in the second chamber No changes to the powers of the second chamber and the House of Commons should retain its primacy

Not exact matches

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.

But there are a few conventions, agreed between all the parties, and all nominations for a peerage have to be approved.

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 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.

What began as a suspicious link between the people nominated for peerages and the people donating huge sums of money to Labour, ended with stories of how Lord Levy would invite potential donors for tennis, with the chance for a quick chat with «Tony» later.

The exchanges between the then prime minister, Tony Blair, the then leader of the opposition, William Hague, and the honours scrutiny committee detail how Ashcroft was twice turned down for a peerage, partly because of concerns about his status as a «tax exile».

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Lord Alton of Liverpool was Liberal (later Liberal Democrat) MP in Liverpool between 1979 and 1997, when he stood down from the Commons and was awarded a life peerage.

In a move that will do nothing to help relations between the SNP and Conservatives, the prime minister on Thursday gave a peerage and ministerial job in the Scotland Office to Andrew Dunlop, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher at the time of the poll tax.

The House of Lords Act 1999 ended the automatic link between the holding of a hereditary peerage and membership of the House of Lords, and the 2nd Lord Monckton ceased to be a member of the House at that point.