Sentences with phrase «over peerages»

Sleaze: «Lord Levy was last night facing fresh pressure over the peerages row after it emerged that he personally nominated his former secretary for an MBE.

The Lord has been called to appear before an influential committee of MPs amid controversy over his peerage.

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Anti-Corbyn MPs criticise peerage just weeks after the civil liberties campaigner presides over a «whitewash» into Labour anti-Semitism.

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They over saw «a house of experts», where business chums, think tank experts, ex-MPs and scientists were given peerages.

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.

A Westminster inquiry into the row over Lord Ashcroft's peerage was thrown into turmoil when the Tory MPs on the committee walked out and said they were boycotting it permanently.

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.

That will give the heirs to Britain's peerages with older sisters something to chew on as they read their newspapers over the breakfast table.

Criticism over 45 new peerages and public anger over rising political costs force PM to support curbs on Lords appointments

An MP for over thirty years, his elevation to the peerage was intended to create a vacancy in a safe seat for the Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, who had been defeated in a shock result in the 1964 general election in his Smethwick constituency.

Mr Corbyn also faced criticism for handing a peerage to race equality campaigner Martha Osamor after it emerged she had defended Labour activists suspended from the party over alleged anti-Semitism.

Theresa May tried to laugh off a question over whether UKIP's Nigel Farage could be in line for a peerage.

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.

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.

Corbyn faces backlash over Shami Chakrabarti's peerage after she led Labour's anti-Semitism inquiry

Harold Macmillan declined a peerage on leaving office, but over 20 years after retiring accepted a second offer of the customary, hereditary earldom for retiring Prime Ministers, as Earl of Stockton; this was the last earldom to be offered outside the Royal Family.

Recent controversies over the ending of the BAE Systems fraud investigation and the attorney general's potential deciding role in the cash - for - peerages investigation have «compromised or appeared to compromise» the position and raised serious concerns about how independence and impartiality in the role can be guaranteed, says the report by the Constitutional Affairs Committee.