Sentences with phrase «granting of the peerage»

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.

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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.

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.

Giving his old friend Mr Livingstone a high profile role would see him granted a peerage despite the former London Mayor calling for the House of Lords to be abolished.

Conservatives closed ranks around William Hague yesterday amid anger about alleged Labour dirty tricks after the leaking of government documents relating to the peerage granted to Lord Ashcroft 10 years ago.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/12/a-detailed-rebuttal-to-abraham-from-monckton/ Letters Patent granting peerages, and consequently membership, are the personal gift of the Monarch.

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.