Sentences with phrase «of a peerage at»

This prevented an offer of a peerage at the time.

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And Derek Draper and Damian McBride have been creating it in large quantities, and they're by no means the first or the most obvious examples, given the loans - for - peerages scandal, various bits of chicanery around the Iraq war and subsequent investigations (e.g. David Kelly), ministerial expense fraud (or at least it would be fraud if you or I tried the same thing on our tax returns), pretty much anything to do with Peter Mandelson and the various leaks, briefings and spin cycles that have characterised the Labour party for the last fifteen years.

The recent loans - for - peerages row revealed the flaws in a fully appointed chamber and today leader of the Commons Jack Straw confirmed that a vote on composition could be expected at the end of the year.

You can't lose your peerage or any of its privileges, you can never be booted out, so ultimately there are no threats that can be thrown at you that are in any way meaningful.

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.

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.

Meg Russell of the Constitution Unit at University College, London, one of the foremost academic experts on the House of Lords, is very upset about today's new peerages.

Mark Field MP wrote yesterday that the next Conservative Government should restrict the awarding of any future peerages to those taking up ministerial appointments - or at the very least to stop any retiring MP tainted by the expenses scandal from being ennobled - in advance of creating an elected second chamber.

Giving a peerage to the gruesome Alan Sugar is the sort of frantic, misconceived stunt that is Gordon Brown at his very worst.

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.

Meg Russell, the leading academic on the House of Lords, points out that David Cameron would need to appoint just over 160 new Conservative members with no peerages at all for other groups to give the government a Lords majority.

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.

In a move that will do nothing to help relations between the SNP and Conservatives, the prime minister on Thursday gave a peerage and ministerial job in the Scotland Office to Andrew Dunlop, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher at the time of the poll tax.

Investment banking chief Jitesh Gadhia, who has donated # 247,720 and was part of a group of Tory donors who paid at least # 50,000 to attend «Dinners with Dave», also receives a peerage.

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.

Dissolution Honours Takes place at the end of a Parliament, when peerages can be given to MPs — from all parties — who are leaving the House of Commons.

The House of Lords Act 1999 ended the automatic link between the holding of a hereditary peerage and membership of the House of Lords, and the 2nd Lord Monckton ceased to be a member of the House at that point.

For the past two years, Kottick — formerly president of Right at Home Realty and also a former vice president of Royal LePage — has been executive vice president of corporate development for Toronto - based Peerage Realty Partners (PRP), a partner - driven network of real estate brokerages and ancillary companies founded in 2007 by mega-wealthy entrepreneur Miles Nadal.