Sentences with phrase «life peerage»

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.

Cash for Honours (also Cash for Peerages, Loans for Lordships, Loans for Honours or Loans for Peerages) is the name given by some in the media to a political scandal in the United Kingdom in 2006 and 2007 concerning the connection between political donations and the award of life peerages.

In March 2006, several men nominated for life peerages by then Prime Minister Tony Blair [1] were rejected by the House of Lords Appointments Commission.

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York traditionally get life peerages on retirement.

The New Year Honours List, the Queen's Birthday Honours List (to mark the Sovereign's official birthday, the second Saturday in June), the Dissolution Honours List (to mark the dissolution of Parliament) and the Resignation Honours List (to mark the end of a Prime Minister's tenure) are all used to announce life peerage creations.

It isn't just the corruption — the expenses scandal, the recent Rifkind - Straw venality, the link between life peerages and party donations reported yesterday.

While the graph above shows a clear increase in the size of the chamber, the numbers become even more stark when looking only at life peerages over a longer period.

Since 2010 he has appointed to the Lords at a faster rate than any other Prime Minister since life peerages began in 1958 — with appointments averaging 40 per year.

By convention they can eventually expect life peerages — if they want them — after their Commons careers come to an end.

Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher all took life peerages following their retirement from the House of Commons, although Thatcher's husband, Denis Thatcher, was made a baronet.

This proposes a statutory commission to make recommendations to the Crown — to be presented by the prime minister — for the creation of life peerages to the House of Lords (cl 1).

David Young - Baron Young of Graffham1984 - 1985Shortly after receiving a life peerage, Young was appointed Minister without Portfolio to advise the Thatcher government on unemployment issues.

In his resignation honours list, he also treated several of his top advisers to life peerages and CBEs.

Sugg, awarded a CBE last year for her service, was another spad to get an honour in the wake of Cameron's departure, being given a life peerage.

Have the last laugh by donating a couple of million to the Tory party and receiving a life peerage.

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 chamber.

The ruling came around ten years after several of Tony Blair's close colleagues were arrested in the so - called «cash - for - honours» inquiry — an investigation into loans to the Labour Party and subsequent receipt of life peerages that shook the political landscape.

In the second half of the 20th century the granting of hereditary peerages, other than to members of the Royal Family, virtually ceased, giving way to life peerages, which have been granted since the passing of the Life Peerages Act 1958.

The prime minister put him forward for a life peerage in the 2011 New Year honours list but this was unsuccessful.

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.

Who'd have guessed that Bridges was a lobbyist for Quiller Consultants before he was given a life peerage by David Cameron in May 2015.

A notable omission from the list was Norman Lamont, who was overlooked for a life peerage in what was seen as a snub for the former Chancellor of the Exchequer who had become one of Major's most prominent critics.

On 18 November 1995 it was announced McNally would receive a life peerage.

He returned to the House of Lords at the end of 1974 when he accepted a life peerage, becoming known as Baron Home of the Hirsel, of Coldstream in the County of Berwick.

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.

That year he accepted a life peerage and was an active member of the House of Lords until shortly before his death, aged 101, in 1986.

Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (Hereditary) and also Baron Shepherd of Spalding (Life Peerage)(27 September 1918 — 5 April 2001), was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

In August 2015, Barker was nominated for a life peerage in the Dissolution Peerages List.

Is given a life peerage as Baroness Warsi of Dewsbury and becomes shadow minister of state for Community Cohesion and Social Action.

Its then leader, Hugh Gaitskell, objected to the legislation on the grounds that life peerages might enhance the prestige of the then predominantly hereditary upper house.

The Coalition Government's draft proposal for Lords reform in 2011 «provides that a person who holds a life peerage may at any time disclaim that peerage by writing to the Lord Chancellor.

Life peerages have saved the House of Lords, though not in the way Gaitskell perhaps expected.