Sentences with phrase «number of peerages»

Family values and hints at good Christian morality are often used to thinly veil misogyny and it affects a small but significant number of peerages in the House of Lords that are still only open to be filled by men bishops.

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Furthermore, the prime minister is able to use honours for leverage: many of the victims of Harold MacMillan's «night of the long knives» were mollified with peerages; more recently it was alleged in some quarters that Tony Blair convinced a number of ageing Labour MPs to retire in 2001 to make way for young New Labour high - fliers, by promising them peerages.

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 first such peerages were created in 1958, and the graph below shows the growth in numbers since — with cut off points towards the end of each premiership.

The funding review was ordered at the height of the «cash for honours» probe, initially prompted by the discovery that a number of people nominated for peerages had secretly lent money to the Labour Party.