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

In the 1960s, Roy Thomson had some justifiable claim to a peerage as a Canadian and later British publisher.

In addition, it recommended greater clarity between giving out a life peerage as an honour and as a qualification for membership of the House of Lords.

He resumed the post in 1929 (once again as a member of the cabinet) when Labour returned to office under MacDonald, [7] and held it until 1930, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Noel - Buxton, of Aylsham in the County of Norfolk.

Is given a life peerage as Baroness Warsi of Dewsbury and becomes shadow minister of state for Community Cohesion and Social Action.

The latter year he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Stuart of Findhorn.

Alexander had been tipped for a peerage as it was believed if he lost his seat in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey he would be needed to help oversee coalition negotiations, although it would not have required him to hold a peerage for him to play that role.

Not exact matches

As for William Hague, how is it that Bliar knew all there was to know and did nothing about blocking Ashcroft's peerage?

«To me, it is an affront when a Peer says that he thought his peerage was a reward for his success as a composer and he did not expect to attend debates and vote on policy issues.

Technically Home, was PM while not a member of parliament between the time he resigned his peerage and when he was elected as an MP.

«The Labour party has sponsored a culture of Cash for Influence, and has promoted unelectable individuals to the peerage so as to get them into the Cabinet.

Subsequently, under the Life Peerages Act 1958, life peerages became the norm for all new grants outside the Royal Family, this being seen as a modest reform of the nature of the second legislative Peerages Act 1958, life peerages became the norm for all new grants outside the Royal Family, this being seen as a modest reform of the nature of the second legislative peerages became the norm for all new grants outside the Royal Family, this being seen as a modest reform of the nature of the second legislative chamber.

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

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.

«I will be recommending that we should be able to take a range of actions as necessary, including being able to suspend peers immediately while an investigation is being carried out, longer periods of suspension if cases are proven, and even consider the option not of removing peerages -[that is] not in the gift of the House - but of even longer and perhaps permanent exclusions in extreme cases.

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

Lord Levy has been named as the person who told a wealthy businessman that his # 250,000 loan to the Labour party need not be declared when applying for a peerage.

What began as a suspicious link between the people nominated for peerages and the people donating huge sums of money to Labour, ended with stories of how Lord Levy would invite potential donors for tennis, with the chance for a quick chat with «Tony» later.

Hague, who as Ashcroft's closest colleague sponsored his peerage and was subject to his promise to become a permanent resident, has been invited.

Of all Gordon Brown's decisions — both good and bad — the most questionable, perhaps the oddest, and certainly the most irritating, was to award a peerage to Digby Jones and invite him into his government as trade minister.

The billionaire described how he had renegotiated an undertaking he gave as a condition of his peerage to become a full British resident to allow him to retain his non-dom status and avoid paying tax on his substantial international earnings.

The exchanges between the then prime minister, Tony Blair, the then leader of the opposition, William Hague, and the honours scrutiny committee detail how Ashcroft was twice turned down for a peerage, partly because of concerns about his status as a «tax exile».

But how would you feel if as someone paying the same stealth taxes as you, sees the same senior citizens lying on hospital trolleys, doesn't have enough money for heating (let alone a peerage) and weren't even asked to support the great «master plan» of the New Labour Dual - Monarchy?

As the incumbent discusses a peerage, MPs are evaluating the 10 candidates to succeed him before tomorrow's vote

Like both his grandfathers, Benn's father was a Liberal MP — but he later shifted his allegiance to the Labour Party and was elevated to the peerage in 1941 as the 1st Viscount Stansgate.

Cameron has also nominated the lobbyist Kevin Shinkwin for a peerage, with the official documents describing him as a «longstanding voluntary sector professional».

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.

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».

A notable omission from the list was Norman Lamont, who was overlooked for a life peerage in what was seen as a snub for the former Chancellor of the Exchequer who had become one of Major's most prominent critics.

I prefer Hague to Rifkind as Foreign Sec but perhaps Rifkind would take a peerage and be Leader of the House of Lords.

He returned to the House of Lords at the end of 1974 when he accepted a life peerage, becoming known as Baron Home of the Hirsel, of Coldstream in the County of Berwick.

Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (Hereditary) and also Baron Shepherd of Spalding (Life Peerage)(27 September 1918 — 5 April 2001), was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

It was Mr Hague, as Tory leader, who put Mr Ashcroft forward for a peerage in March 1999, but the honours scrutiny committee turned him down on the grounds that he was a tax exile.

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.

In 1960 his father Tony Benn was famously disqualified as an MP when he inherited his father's peerage.

As the law stands, I can not divest myself of my peerage.»

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.

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.

When did Hague tell David Cameron that Ashcroft had not in fact become a permanent resident, as he had committed to do when he received his peerage?

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

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.

Speculation that Mr McNicol had accepted a peerage from the Labour leader began as soon as he quit as general secretary in February.

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.

I drew him puffing on a post-coital cigarette, full of self - loathing, as his partner promises him a Tory peerage.

He managed to pack the House of Lords with another 13 Tories, as well as two cross benchers along with the Labour peerage for Ms Shami Chakrabarti.

Sayeeda Warsi Having fought Dewsbury in 2005, she was appointed to the shadow cabinet in July 2007 as shadow minister for community cohesion and given a peerage, making her the youngest member of the House of Lords.

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.

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.