Sentences with phrase «peerages affair»

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.

Tony Blair has today called on Labour supporters to remain calm and ride out the «storm» of the loans - for - peerages affair.

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

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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.

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.

Daily Mail leader:» [The George Osborne affair] is no cash - for - peerages or Formula 1 scandal.

Either way, it suggests that baring major new developments in the «loans for peerages» affair, such as criminal charges being brought or Blair himself being interviewed, it doesn't look as though it is going to have a huge effect.

When SNP politician Angus MacNeil first asked the police to investigate allegations peerages had been offered for secret donations to Labour, few believed the affair would go very far.

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.