Sentences with phrase «of a peerage»

StreetCity is a partner of Peerage Realty Partners of Toronto, which provides financial backing and resources for its partner companies.

Four senior Liberal Democrat politicians defeated in the general election, including former business secretary Vince Cable, have turned down offers of a peerage from Nick Clegg in the dissolution honours list.

An undisputed member of the peerage of the automotive aristocracy, Aston Martin boasts a history going all the way back to 1913, when its parent company was founded by Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin as Bamford & Martin Ltd..

It really stinks that Cameron's latest list of peerages includes so many Tory party donors like the Asian jewellery tycoon who either personally or through his company has made 20 donations to the Tories in the last six years, and the Tory co-treasurer who has donated over # 2.3 million to the party.

There was criticism of the peerage from within the Conservative Party, with former MP Sir Anthony Grant saying: «We want to detach ourselves from this notion that people only have to give money and then they can waltz into what is, after all, part of the legislature.»

A: We do not know for how long Lord Ashcroft has enjoyed non-dom status, and whether he did before or after his letter to William Hague and his acceptance of a peerage, though it is difficult to believe he would have sought a reinterpretation of «permanent» as long term for many other reasons.

Newly elected to the Board of Directors is Don Kottick of Peerage Realty Partners in Toronto.

In order to cap the Coalition's current proposals, Labour now needs to call for the complete abolition of the Peerage, with strict limits being placed on the legislative powers of the Second Chamber.

A substantial donor does not strike a deal: instead there is a reasonable and unspoken expectation of a peerage.

On 25 March 2006 it was revealed that Scotland Yard had requested that parliament halt the Public Administration Select Committee hearing with four of the peerage nominees, Sir David Garrard, Sir Gulam Noon, and Chai Patel, Barry Townsley as it could prejudice the criminal investigation.

As recently as 2004 the issue of large donations to a political party being linked to the award of a peerage arose when Paul Drayson donated # 555,000 to the Labour Party.

In the 1920s David Lloyd George was involved in a barely concealed «cash for patronage» scandal managed by Maundy Gregory, which resulted in the 1925 Act which barred this (purchase of peerages had not previously been illegal).

The billionaire described how he had renegotiated an undertaking he gave as a condition of his peerage to become a full British resident to allow him to retain his non-dom status and avoid paying tax on his substantial international earnings.

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.

Complicating things still further are the demands of his critics that Rennard be expelled or deprived of his peerage.

«These are promises that were made in respect of a peerage that was given, and now tax has not been paid and instead it's been given to the Conservative party for the general election fund.»

The Peerage Act 1963, allowing renunciation of peerages, became law on 31 July 1963 and just 22 minutes later he became the first peer to renounce his title.

The succession brings the story of the peerage almost full circle.

This prevented an offer of a peerage at the time.

It emerged earlier today Hague kept Cameron in the dark for at least a month after he learned that Ashcroft had renegotiated the terms of his peerage and acquired non-dom status.

Yet the timing appears to be a response to the ruling last month by the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, that the Cabinet Office should release the precise terms of the 2000 agreement on the granting of the peerage.

Appointed upon his receipt of a peerage in 2013, the Conservative Party donor was instrumental in steering the education bill — and its controversial plans to make force the conversion of «coasting» schools into academies — through the House of Lords last year.

They are created either by writ, i.e. by royal summons to attend the house of peers, or by letters patent, i.e. by royal grant of any dignity and degree of peerage; and they enjoy many privileges, exclusive of their senatorial capacity.

It is part of Peerage Realty Partners.

Ed Miliband recognises Doreen Lawrence's commitment to race issues by including her in new list of peerages

Maurice Glassman's acceptance of a peerage is a coup for Ed Miliband given how hard the Tories have courted London Citizens, the community organising group that Glassman works with.

Named vice-president is Don Kottick of Peerage Realty Partners in Toronto.

He accused David Cameron of being «obsessed with PR», the party claimed that he had been asking for a peerage, but he counter-claimed that the party had actually been wooing him with the offer of a peerage.

Have you stripped him of his peerage?

18 September 2003: Britain's first constitutional affairs secretary, and likely last lord chancellor, Lord Falconer, announces government plans to expel the remaining 92 hereditary peers from the upper house «when parliamentary time allows» and strip anyone who has ever committed a criminal offence, including Archer, of their peerages.

As the law stands, I can not divest myself of my peerage.»