Sentences with phrase «received peerages»

A few MPs who stood down have received peerages — Sir Patrick Cormack, David Maclean, and Richard Spring — and there are the usual smattering of donors, though Sir Anthony Bamford is conspicuously absent from the list.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Investment banking chief Jitesh Gadhia, who has donated # 247,720 and was part of a group of Tory donors who paid at least # 50,000 to attend «Dinners with Dave», also receives a peerage.

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.

It is high time Peter Tatchell received a «People's Peerage».)

Jo Swinson, the deputy leader of the Lib Dems, will receive a CBE, adding to the list of more than 15 of her party's MPs who have received honours or peerages since the coalition.

This is not the first time the Conservatives have been accused of being too close to wealthy businessman while the last Labour government faced a police investigation over the cash for peerages scandal, and the Liberal Democrats have yet to pay back the money they received from convicted fraudster Michael Brown.

On 18 November 1995 it was announced McNally would receive a life peerage.

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.