Sentences with phrase «life peer»
A "life peer" is a term used in the United Kingdom to describe someone who is given a title of nobility for their lifetime, rather than inheriting it. They are appointed by the monarch based on their expertise and contributions to society. Unlike other peers, life peers cannot pass on their title to their children. Full definition
A higher proportion of life peers than MPs are women, and significant numbers of ethnic minority members have been appointed in recent years.
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In 2001, he was made a Conservative life peer.
Jonathan Clive Marks, Baron Marks of Henley - on - Thames, QC (born 19 October 1952)[1] is a British barrister and Liberal Democrat life peer in the House of Lords.
On 30 January 1992, he was created Life Peer as Baron Prentice, of Daventry in the County of Northamptonshire.
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Patricia Scotland, Labour life peer since 1997, became the first female black QC, and the youngest since Pitt the Younger, at 35 in 1991.
The Queen formally appoints life Peers on the advice and recommendation of the Prime Minister.
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 move, which is expected to create at least 80 new life peers with allegiance to political parties — most of them Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour — is an embarrassment to all three party leaders, who had pledged in their manifestos to cut the number of peers.
David Cameron has plenty of other legislative priorities before reforming the Upper House and initiating a difficult battle with the mass of Tory life peers who oppose his instinct to democratise the Lords.
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.
Liberal Democrat life peer Trevor Smith sets out the implications of 5 May for his party.
There is no such provision for life peers.
But this misreads how much the second chamber has much increased in authority and activism since the innovation of life peers half a century ago, and particularly in the last decade after the removal of most heredetaries.
Life peer since 2011 and former Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow; the second black woman to be elected as an MP, in 1997.
Meanwhile it is said that Conservative whips went to the trouble of flying Tory life peer Andrew Lloyd Webber back from New York purely for the vote on Monday evening.
The current study presents a novel experimental design to examine how real - life peer relationships modulate altruistic punishment of bullies and compensation of victims after observed ostracism.
Everyone knows that Nancy Astor was the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, but who was the first woman Life Peer to take her seat on the red benches?
The future composition of the House might be secured, at least in part, by providing for each current Life Peer, at least who attends very or fairly regularly, to name an heir, by no means necessarily or even ordinarily a relative, but rather a political and a wider intellectual soul mate.
Mr Straw also sparked some dismay when he said the transition to the new arrangements will not be complete until the middle of this century, with numbers of life peers dwindling gradually as they retire, resign or die.
Claudia Beamish is the daughter of the Conservative life peer Tufton Victor Hamilton Beamish, Baron Chelwood and his first wife Janet McMillan Stevenson.
Conservative life peer Peter Carrington, aged 96, is still a member of the House of Lords after 74 years» service.
The Liberal Democrats currently have 101 peers but only eight MPs, while the Conservative Party, which has an overall majority in the Commons, has has fewer life peers than the Labour Party.
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Convention says no, but theoretically a life or hereditary life peer could become prime minister, as Alec Samuels explains
In the UK, Sebastian (now Lord) Coe went from leading track - and - field athlete to Conservative politician and life peer in the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m record.
Conservative MP Sir Patrick Cormack has laid his own proposals which would see all members except bishops and archbishops created life peers, with no elected members.
Ten years later she became a Labour life peer and has been picked to sit on Home Office and police panels.
Abstract: The current study presents a novel experimental design to examine how real - life peer relationships modulate altruistic punishment of bullies and compensation of victims after observed ostracism.
Earlier this afternoon I wrote about the 14 new Conservative Life Peers who have been appointed to the Lords.
Last November's reform removed most hereditaries and left a «transitional» chamber, mostly of life peers.
Of the 11 new Conservative life peers, seven were former Cabinet members who had served under Mrs Thatcher.
Lord Alton of Liverpool, a Christian and life peer, raised the topic of Christians being persecuted in Syria in the Second Chamber.
He became a Life Peer because of his work with disabled people and is a passionate advocate of ending global human trafficking.
The majority of the 600 members are now appointed life peers, with 90 hereditary peers elected by their fellow peers, and 14 hereditaries who have been made life peers.
The son of a high court judge and nephew of a Tory MP - turned - life peer, he learned to speak Arabic in Yemen before serving as an intelligence officer in Iraq.
Roger joined the Lords as a life Peer in 2010.
Sebastian CoeMiddle distance legend, life peer and now chief for the 2012 London Olympic Games, Lord Coe is a front - runner in any list of sporting politicians.
The bill would have made the house predominantly an elected one by 2025, although limited numbers of bishops and life peers would have remained.
Almost 30 % of life peers are now women and both the Leader of the House and the Opposition Leader are women, not to mention the arrival of women bishops and the first woman Black Rod in over 650 years.
The remaining 658 members are life peers.
Today most members are life peers, and the chamber is increasingly diverse in gender and ethnic terms.
Feldman also happens to be a life peer and former Conservative party chairman.
On 16 May 2005 he was created a life peer as Baron Adonis, of Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden, [10] elevation to membership of the House of Lords making possible his appointment as a Government Minister.
In 1958 life peers were introduced (around a century after they were first proposed); in 1999 most hereditary peers were removed.
He was chief economist at Goldman Sachs before being made a life peer in 2015 and entering the government.
He was later promoted to become the Head of the Policy Unit from 2001 until being made a life peer in 2005, when he was appointed to the Government soon after as Minister of State for Education.
On 3 November 1997, he was created a life peer as Baron Bassam of Brighton, of Brighton in the County of East Sussex, [2] and was introduced in the House of Lords on 18 November, [3] sitting on the Labour benches.
The Green Party also has one life peer, three Members of the European Parliament, two members of the London Assembly, and a small number of councillors on various local councils in England and Wales.