Sentences with phrase «hereditary life peer»

Convention says no, but theoretically a life or hereditary life peer could become prime minister, as Alec Samuels explains

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However, its effects were gradual because hereditary peers, and their successors, retained until recently their rights to attend and vote with the life peers.

Although the monarch had for centuries been empowered to create hereditary peers, with rights to sit in the House of Lords, the Life Peerages Act 1958 had a profound impact on the honours system and parliament.

Last November's reform removed most hereditaries and left a «transitional» chamber, mostly of life peers.

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

With the House of Lords Act 1999, the right of the hereditary peers of an automatic seat in the House of Lords was removed, so Shepherd was created a life peer as Baron Shepherd of Spalding, of Spalding in the County of Lincolnshire to keep his seat.

Shepherd remained an active member of the House of Lords for the rest of his life, and on 16 November 1999 he was created a life peer as Baron Shepherd of Spalding, of Spalding in the County of Lincolnshire [2] in order to keep his seat after the House of Lords Act removed the right of hereditary peers to an automatic seat in the House.

He argued: «Let us remove all us hereditaries but, my Lords, only on the condition that all you life peers go too.

Option 2: All life and remaining hereditary peers would be removed once the third batch of new members arrives.