Sentences with phrase «peerage by»

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».

The Coalition Government's draft proposal for Lords reform in 2011 «provides that a person who holds a life peerage may at any time disclaim that peerage by writing to the Lord Chancellor.

«I would nominate philanthropist and businessman, Robert «Bob» Edmiston, who was nominated for a peerage by Michael Howard.

Shami Chakrabarti has dropped a massive hint that she has been offered a peerage by the Labour party.

Ms Abbott also gave her support to human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti, who has signalled that she has been offered a peerage by the Labour party.

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.

A down - market treasurer, Michael Ashcroft, is refused a peerage by the honours scrutiny committee.

A former Labour general secretary seen as a hate figure by many on the left wing of the party has been given a peerage by Jeremy Corbyn.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

On 3 October 2006, Sir Gulam was informed by a Labour official that the prime minister was nominating him for a peerage.

Ed Miliband recognises Doreen Lawrence's commitment to race issues by including her in new list of peerages

In the 1920s David Lloyd George was involved in a barely concealed «cash for patronage» scandal managed by Maundy Gregory, which resulted in the 1925 Act which barred this (purchase of peerages had not previously been illegal).

Suspicion was aroused by some that the peerages were a quid pro quo for the loans.

Lord Levy, Labour's chief fundraiser, has been arrested and bailed by police officers investigating the cash for peerages affair.

One Maundy Gregory, allegedly encouraged by David Lloyd George, openly sold honours in the 1920s - resulting in the convicted fraudster Sir Joseph Robinson receiving a peerage in 1922 in exchange for # 30,000.

Furthermore, the prime minister is able to use honours for leverage: many of the victims of Harold MacMillan's «night of the long knives» were mollified with peerages; more recently it was alleged in some quarters that Tony Blair convinced a number of ageing Labour MPs to retire in 2001 to make way for young New Labour high - fliers, by promising them peerages.

The multi-millionaire was nominated for a peerage, which was blocked by the House of Lords watchdog in relation to tax issues.

The meeting of the constitutional affairs committee went ahead despite warnings by Scotland Yard that it could prejudice investigations into the loans - for - peerages row.

Michael Spencer, a former Tory donor whose nomination for a peerage was this week blocked by the independent advisory committee, is the firm's majority shareholder.

By 2017 Labour's policy had changed to a «belief» in an elected second chamber but a commitment only to stopping hereditary peerages and reducing the size of the House of Lords:

It was the second time the peer had been arrested by police investigating allegations that political parties offered wealthy businessmen peerages in return for secret loans.

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.

The Jewish academic - cum - community organiser was astounded when he was offered a peerage, out of the blue, by Ed Miliband in the new year honours list.

That is the implication of tonight's comments by William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary and the man who pushed Lord Ashcroft's peerage through.

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».

It was the revelation that millions of pounds in undeclared loans had been received by both Labour and the Conservatives, and that several of these donors had been nominated for peerages, that prompted the police inquiry.

He spent 2004 - 08 as trade commissioner for the EU before being brought back in a surprise move by Brown, who gave him a peerage and made him business secretary.

Alexandra Runswick, director of campaign group Unlock Democracy, meanwhile accused the Government of «cowering in the shade» of the Royal Wedding by announcing the peerages during the highly - publicised event.

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

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.

Perhaps surprisingly the issue does not seem to have done any damage to Labour's support — perhaps simply because people already assumed that peerages could be bought by donations, or perhaps because people see politicans as all as bad as one another, rather than attaching blame to the Labour party alone.

A peerage can only be removed by an act of parliament.

He was still eligible to stand in the resulting Bristol South East byelection, which he won, but insisted on his right to abandon the peerage and kept his Commons seat in a byelection on 4 May 1961 prompted by his succession.

According to party sources, there are several reasons for the decision not to nominate the former minister for a peerage: his support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq; a damages claim that is being brought against him by a Libyan couple who were «rendered» to one of Muammar Gaddafi's prisons; an ongoing inquiry by Westminster's intelligence and security committee (ISC) into that and other rendition allegations; and the words that were captured by the undercover reporter.

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.

Research by Cracroft's Peerage shows that Cameron would be the most aristocratic prime minister since Alec Douglas - Home in 1964.

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

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.

Nominated by Corbyn for a peerage in August, Shami Chakrabarti's promotion to Labour's frontbench as shadow attorney general has been rapid.

Yet the timing appears to be a response to the ruling last month by the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, that the Cabinet Office should release the precise terms of the 2000 agreement on the granting of the peerage.

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.

An undisputed member of the peerage of the automotive aristocracy, Aston Martin boasts a history going all the way back to 1913, when its parent company was founded by Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin as Bamford & Martin Ltd..

Christopher Monckton is a famous scourge of the Clime Syndicate, and they expend a lot of energy attempting to marginalize him as a kook and a weirdo, including strange claims that his hereditary viscountcy, conferred on his grandfather by HM The Queen on February 12th 1957 (if you'll forgive a little peer review), is not a real peerage.

Information on the composition of the House of Lords is available in Lords by party and type of peerage.

He argues that Letters Patent creating peerages can't be amended by general legislation — but his only basis for this argument appears to be a written answer from Baroness Ashton which he's misconstruing.

They are created either by writ, i.e. by royal summons to attend the house of peers, or by letters patent, i.e. by royal grant of any dignity and degree of peerage; and they enjoy many privileges, exclusive of their senatorial capacity.

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.

This proposes a statutory commission to make recommendations to the Crown — to be presented by the prime minister — for the creation of life peerages to the House of Lords (cl 1).