Sentences with word «peerage»

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

In March 2006, several men nominated for life peerages by then Prime Minister Tony Blair [1] were rejected by the House of Lords Appointments Commission.

Who'd have guessed that Bridges was a lobbyist for Quiller Consultants before he was given a life peerage by David Cameron in May 2015.

We should not aspire to the inequality of hereditary peerages as portrayed in Downton Abbey, says Eleanor Laing

He refused to give a guarantee that Labour had not given peerages for loans, saying «I am bound to say not all the information possibly is out yet and we are still looking at it.»

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York traditionally get life peerages on retirement.

Veteran real estate brokerage owners Costa Poulopoulos and Mary Johnson, who formerly operated Realty Executives Elite in London and Thunder Bay, Ont., have partnered with Peerage Realty Partners to launch StreetCity, a new independent brand.

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StreetCity has partnered with Peerage Realty Partners of Toronto, which provides financial backing and resources.

He also suggested political parties were continuing to accept cash in return for awarding peerages, a criminal offence.

Both women were appointed in the wake of the 1958 Life Peerages Act despite the opposition of one or two peers who should have known better.

A former Labour minister has criticised the police probe into the loans for peerages row as «absurd», saying the sale of honours has always gone on and always will.

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

Granted peerage on retirement (so we can still call it the «House of Lords») Each party represented in the Commons then allowed to appoint up to 30 «advocates» to fill front bench rolls for that term.

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.

Former Deputy Chief Whip Sir John Randall, MP Sir Alan Haselhurst and Amanda Sater, lately Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, were also handed peerages.

But let's not pretend that a Labour peerage in these circumstances doesn't stink.

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.

Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott tells party leader not to bottle out on trying to reach deal after outcry over peerages for donors

Ms Chakrabarti's appointment, comes after Tom Watson, Labour's deputy leader, called on the party to refuse to take up any new peerages in order to avoid «legitimising» Mr Cameron's rewards.

Metropolitan police officers are investigating whether Labour and the Conservatives took secret contributions from wealthy backers in return for peerages before the last general election.

The Treasury might also sell peerages on a day ticket.

Labour donor, City financier and Nottingham Forest FC owner Nigel Doughty and Sir Gulam Noon, the «curry» millionaire, who was caught up in the loans for peerages affair under Tony Blair, are understood to be set to join the Lords.

There's a keen, biting edge to these crystalline recollections; by the third episode, «Some Hope,» which takes place in a labyrinthine mansion during a country aristocrat's party, Patrick Melrose is turning the refined and dazzling world of British peerage on its ear.

Top Labour MPs to have been awarded peerages include former Labour ministers John Prescott and Peter Mandelson, and Tories Anne McIntosh and Michael Forsyth.

Doreen Lawrence, the mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, is to be made a Labour peer in a new list of political peerages due to be announced shortly.

When police started investigating the links between peerages and donations to political parties, it looked like a scandal that might topple a prime minister and hasten wholesale reform of Parliament's upper chamber.

The Metropolitan Police team, investigating the affair and led by Assistant Commissioner John Yates handed its main file on the cash for peerages inquiry to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on Friday 20 April.

The authors of the most exhaustive study of the link between donations and peerages ever undertaken say it is high time for the reform of the Lords

Tony Benn helped bring about Peerage Act 1963 which allowed him to renounce title and keep Commons seat

Since 2010 he has appointed to the Lords at a faster rate than any other Prime Minister since life peerages began in 1958 — with appointments averaging 40 per year.

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.

Hayden Phillips began his review at Mr Blair's request in the wake of the cash for honours row, where the main parties were accused of offering wealthy businessmen peerages in return for loans.

The Queen has been pleased to signify Her intention of conferring peerages of the United Kingdom for life on Stephen Carter CBE and Paul Myners CBE.

Ed Miliband has been warned he is taking a multimillion - pound gamble with Labour's finances after blocking peerages for three donors who have helped to keep the party afloat.

Since then its powers have been castrated and last year David Cameron asked the chairman to limit the commission to just two names a year while he created 30 political peerages.

Costa and Mary are working on plans for more branches across Ontario,» says Peerage's CEO Gavin Swartzman.

The person [and their spouse and children] will be divested of all rights and interests attaching to [that] peerage.»

Lately, this formidable «underdog» has been steering one of his innovative operations, Toronto - based Peerage Realty Partners (PRP), into growth mode.

It is true that the Prime Minister is re-inventing the political knighthood, and that the collapse of Lords reform opens up the prospect of more peerages, but patronage has taken a hit, and Downing Street has come late to using what it has.

On the reform of the Upper Chamber it did little more than transform a mixed hereditary and appointed Peerage into what is now a mainly appointed one.

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

Jo Swinson, the deputy leader of the Lib Dems, will receive a CBE, adding to the list of more than 15 of her party's MPs who have received honours or peerages since the coalition.