Sentences with phrase «life peers half»

Finding your peer group ideally would still include real - life peers, fellow artists working in the same time and place, with similar techniques and ideas.

Of the 11 new Conservative life peers, seven were former Cabinet members who had served under Mrs Thatcher.

There is no such provision for life peers.

Many Cabinet members, including Chancellors of the Exchequer, Home Secretaries, Foreign Secretaries and Defence Secretaries, retiring since 1958 have generally been created life peers.

A higher proportion of life peers than MPs are women, and significant numbers of ethnic minority members have been appointed in recent years.

Earlier this afternoon I wrote about the 14 new Conservative Life Peers who have been appointed to the Lords.

Most members are life peers, well over half of whom were appointed after Labour took office in 1997.

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.

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

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.

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.

The paper provides for a gradual transition, with no life peers forced to retire before death, but with the possibility of a redundancy package should they choose it.

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

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.

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.

Included in the announced list were new «working peers»: 31 new Labour life peers recommended by Tony Blair to reduce the Tory majority; Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, recommended 11 new Liberal Democrat life peers; five were recommended by William Hague, the new Conservative Leader.

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.

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

It is a matter of established fact that Tony Blair created more life peers than any of his predecessors: the government maintained, however, that the predominance of Labour supporters among their numbers was justified in balancing out the historic Conservative dominance in the Upper House.

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

Today most members are life peers, and the chamber is increasingly diverse in gender and ethnic terms.

The bill would have made the house predominantly an elected one by 2025, although limited numbers of bishops and life peers would have remained.

The remaining 658 members are life peers.

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.

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 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.

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?

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.

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.

He was chief economist at Goldman Sachs before being made a life peer in 2015 and entering the government.

In 1964, Byers was made a life peer [6] and three years later he became leader of the Liberal peers.

In February 1974, he was once again elected to Parliament, now for Newham South, but left the House of Commons soon afterwards when he was made a life peer, as Baron Elwyn - Jones, of Llanelli in the County of Carmarthen and of Newham in Greater London.

[2] She was created a life peer on 18 September 2013 taking the title Baroness Humphreys, of Llanrwst in the County of Conwy and, unusually, taking the oath in Welsh.

Oates was subsequently made a life peer in October 2015.

Bryony Worthington is an environmental campaigner and Labour life peer.

The founder of the Tory Reform Group, Lord Walker was appointed a life peer after his retirement as an MP in 1992.

«While there are quite reasonable steps [in the trade union bill] to increase transparency, the main thrust of the measures seems to be both partisan and disproportionate to the supposed problems that they are seeking to address,» wrote Kerslake, who was made a life peer in March.

[4] He was subsequently created a life peer on 17 October 2007 taking the title Baron Wallace of Tankerness, of Tankerness in Orkney.

Carlile was created a life peer in 1999, as Baron Carlile of Berriew, of Berriew in the County of Powys, having previously been a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire from 1983 to 1997; he had stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal for East Flintshire in February and October 1974.

He not only published the assurances he gave when made a life peer in 2000 to take up permanent residence in the UK once again and to relinquish the post of Belize's permanent representative to the UN.

Patricia Scotland, Labour life peer since 1997, became the first female black QC, and the youngest since Pitt the Younger, at 35 in 1991.

Political economist and life peer Your question is based on the assumption that Labour will lose the next election.

Economist and Labour life peer I have seen seven Labour leaders come and six go - Wilson, Callaghan, Foot, Kinnock, Smith and Blair.

Writer, broadcaster and life peer I'm in at least four minds as to who should be the next Labour leader.

So it is all the more eye - catching that the Eton - education son of a life peer believes that all MPs will soon have to publish their tax returns.

Lord Puttnam, made a life peer by Tony Blair in 1997, was delivering the annual Marketing Society lecture in Piccadilly, central London.