Sentences with phrase «life peerages»

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).

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The higher honours confer noble titles: «Sir» and «Dame» in the case of knighthoods; «Lord» and «Baron» or «Lady» and «Baroness» in the case of life peerages; and one of the ranks of the hereditary nobility in the case of hereditary peerages.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In early 2006, however, the police were called upon to investigate allegations that fundraisers for both the Labour and Conservative parties had offered supporters a life peerage in return for their financial support.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Once you get a peerage, it's yours for life.

The Queen has been pleased to signify Her intention of conferring peerages of the United Kingdom for life on Stephen Carter CBE and Paul Myners CBE.

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