Sentences with phrase «peerage after»

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

Shami Chakrabarti insisted Jeremy Corbyn is «not a corrupt man» today as she said he only gave her a peerage AFTER her report clearing Labour of widespread anti-Semitism.

Former DUP MP for South Antrim William McCrea was handed a peerage after nomination by his party.

Not exact matches

David Young - Baron Young of Graffham1984 - 1985Shortly after receiving a life peerage, Young was appointed Minister without Portfolio to advise the Thatcher government on unemployment issues.

4 days after becoming PM, Lord Home resigned his peerage, and stood in a by election.

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

As with hereditary peerages, baronetcies generally ceased to be granted after the Labour Party came to power in 1964.

The last time was in 1963, when Tony Benn — Anthony Wedgewood - Benn as he was then — returned to the Commons after renouncing his peerage.

The Labour peer threatened Daily Mail sketch writer Quentin Letts with a libel suit after he called him «stupid» and suggested he only received his peerage because he was a television personality.

The undertaking apparently worked — on 31 March, eight days after signing the letter, his peerage was announced in the spring honours list.

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.

Concerns were raised again after Mr Corbyn handed Ms Chakrabarti a peerage in David Cameron's resignation honours list.

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.

Former Tory MP Anne McIntosh is in line for a peerage, a few months after she joined lobbying firm Hume Brophy as a senior consultant, «advising clients on strategic issues across a range of sectors».

The rule of primogeniture, which sees the succession of hereditary peerages pass to a male even if the son is born after a daughter, has long been a headache for dispossessed females.

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».

But after Dave recently awarded him a peerage, where will the top Tory possibly find the time to make it to the House of Lords?

Former top civil servant Hayden Phillips is conducting a review into party funding at the government's request, after the cash for peerages row raised concerns about the influence wealthy businessmen were having on British political parties.

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.

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.

Former Liberty boss Shami Chakrabarti took a peerage from Jeremy Corbyn shortly after performing a review into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party earlier this year.

After quitting as Bristol South MP, she was handed a peerage in the dissolution honours and now sits in the Lords.

David Cameron's resignation honours list has reportedly been held up after the independent panel blocked his attempt to hand a peerage to a former Conservative party treasurer.

Human rights lawyer Shami Chakrabarti - who Mr Corbyn gave a peerage weeks after she led Labour's controversial anti-Semitism investigation - is now shadow attorney general.

Conservatives closed ranks around William Hague yesterday amid anger about alleged Labour dirty tricks after the leaking of government documents relating to the peerage granted to Lord Ashcroft 10 years ago.

By convention they can eventually expect life peerages — if they want them — after their Commons careers come to an end.

She was offered a peerage by the Labour leader after overseeing a report into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party described by Jewish groups as a «whitewash».

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.

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.

The disgraced peer, 69, who quit as deputy speaker of the Lords and was suspended by Labour after being reported to police, has vowed to «tough it out» and resist calls to resign his peerage.