Sentences with phrase «of the peerage from»

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Disqualification of peers convicted of a serious criminal offence or who are subject to a bankruptcy restriction order Provide power for House of Lords to expel or suspend a member Allow peers to resign and disclaim their peerage Repeal legislation that limits protest around parliament Remove prime minister from process of appointments to President, Deputy President and judges of the Supreme Court Inclusion of spending of non-departmental public bodies in Estimates and Accounts of responsible govt department

Lord Goldsmith has said he will not step aside from his role in the cash for peerages investigation, despite fears over a conflict of interest.

This is not the first time the Conservatives have been accused of being too close to wealthy businessman while the last Labour government faced a police investigation over the cash for peerages scandal, and the Liberal Democrats have yet to pay back the money they received from convicted fraudster Michael Brown.

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.

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.

On 25 November 2010, a week after the announcement of his intended peerage, Flight provoked controversy by suggesting that the government's cuts to child benefits would «discourage the middle classes from breeding» - a politically charged term in discussions on class - «but for those on benefits there is every incentive».

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.

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.

A few MPs who stood down have received peerages — Sir Patrick Cormack, David Maclean, and Richard Spring — and there are the usual smattering of donors, though Sir Anthony Bamford is conspicuously absent from the list.

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.

Authors of Regency fiction will find information on law, language, clothing, and the peerage plus links to other relevant sites from Regency author Joanna Waugh.

So perhaps Mr. House can try to learn a little science rather than expatiating with malevolent ignorance on everything from the least - squares linear - regression trend on monthly temperature anomaly datasets to the arcana of United Kingdom peerage law.

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.