Sentences with phrase «peerages before»

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Giles Radice was a distinguished Labour Parliamentarian: an MP for 28 years before accepting a peerage.

On 12 March 2006, the Sunday Times reported that shortly before being told that he would receive a peerage, Patel had been asked to change a donation to the Labour Party he was planning to make into an unsecured loan.

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

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.

Today we find out what that foundation is, namely that Lord Ashcroft during 2000 made himself ordinarily tax resident for UK tax purposes and therefore fully complied with the undertaking he was asked to give before taking up his peerage.

That year he accepted a life peerage and was an active member of the House of Lords until shortly before his death, aged 101, in 1986.

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.

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.

The Lord has been called to appear before an influential committee of MPs amid controversy over his peerage.