Sentences with phrase «with peerage»

Veteran real estate brokerage owners Costa Poulopoulos and Mary Johnson have partnered with Peerage Realty Partners to launch StreetCity, a new independent brand.

StreetCity has partnered with Peerage Realty Partners of Toronto, which provides financial backing and resources.

Peerage operates with a partnership model that marries entrepreneurial firms that wish to retain their independence and their culture with Peerage's extensive marketing, operational and financial resources, the company says.

Veteran real estate brokerage owners Costa Poulopoulos and Mary Johnson, who formerly operated Realty Executives Elite in London and Thunder Bay, Ont., have partnered with Peerage Realty Partners to launch StreetCity, a new independent brand.

One Labour MP told PoliticsHome: «If he's so useless and responsible for the anti-Semitism stuff, why are they rewarding him with a peerage?

For the House of Lords to earn the confidence of the public, all of us must respect the privileges that come with a peerage and recognise that — because we are unelected — it is especially important to meet the standards the public have a right to expect, and to act swiftly when we fail.»

Outgoing prime ministers often reward old chums with a peerage.

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.

Meg Russell, the leading academic on the House of Lords, points out that David Cameron would need to appoint just over 160 new Conservative members with no peerages at all for other groups to give the government a Lords majority.

Not exact matches

He had been tipped for a peerage, despite being photographed with a dossier of the coalition's broken promises outside No 10 last year.

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.

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

In the late 19th century, peerages began to be awarded to industrialists with increasing frequency.

Although the monarch had for centuries been empowered to create hereditary peers, with rights to sit in the House of Lords, the Life Peerages Act 1958 had a profound impact on the honours system and parliament.

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.

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.

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.

General Sir Richard Dannatt's decision to accept a job and peerage with a future Conservative government was not mentioned, although one MP asked Mr Brown: «Is it more dangerous for politicians to become generals, or for generals to become politicians.»

However, culture change starts with words and outrage, with naming and shaming, withdrawing peerages and knighthoods, refusing honours to any with dubious tax histories.

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.

He told Jon Snow: «What Lord Ashcroft did when he made those irrevocable commitments back 10 years ago to get his peerage — and they were signed off with the flourish that these were solemn and binding undertakings — he committed himself to permanent residence in the United Kingdom.

Her peerage was met with criticism from MPs and prominent antisemitism organisations who questioned her independence.

Mr Cameron reportedly intends to award 29 peerages to Tory donors and other political allies, with 15 for Mr Clegg's Liberal Democrats.

So with that in mind, which of the retiring Conservative MPs should be awarded a peerage?

Maurice Glassman's acceptance of a peerage is a coup for Ed Miliband given how hard the Tories have courted London Citizens, the community organising group that Glassman works with.

His full resignation honours list will be published within weeks, with a spattering of knighthoods and peerages set to go to aides.

It started out with how I was going to be given a peerage and brought into the cabinet.

Since 2010 he has appointed to the Lords at a faster rate than any other Prime Minister since life peerages began in 1958 — with appointments averaging 40 per year.

The first such peerages were created in 1958, and the graph below shows the growth in numbers since — with cut off points towards the end of each premiership.

He accused David Cameron of being «obsessed with PR», the party claimed that he had been asking for a peerage, but he counter-claimed that the party had actually been wooing him with the offer of a 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.

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.

A spokesman for Hughes said he had no knowledge of any nomination for a peerage and said that the money was declared properly in line with parliamentary rules.

In a message to MPs on Monday the government whip, Helen Jones, in her role as the vice-chamberlain of the household, reported that the Queen had agreed to confer a peerage on Martin «for his eminent services during the period in which he has, with such distinguished ability and dignity, presided in the chair of this house».

, Greystoke also boasts an acting pedigree worthy of Burke's peerage, including Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, David Suchet, James Fox, and Nigel Davenport with Andie MacDowell and Glenn Close handling Jane physicality and vocality respectively.

So perhaps Mr. House can try to learn a little science rather than expatiating with malevolent ignorance on everything from the least - squares linear - regression trend on monthly temperature anomaly datasets to the arcana of United Kingdom peerage law.

StreetCity Realty is a Peerage Realty Partner headquartered in London, Ont., with 140 agents operating in seven Ontario cities.

«Chestnut Park clients are drawn to the depth and experience of our agents, and the global platform we are able to provide through our relationship with Christie's,» says Gavin Swartzman, CEO, Peerage Realty Partners, parent company of Chestnut Park.

In other words, Peerage partners get help with expansion while retaining the freedom and the mojo that has made them stand outs.

Peerage, founded by mega-wealthy mover and shaker Miles Nadal, takes an equity stake in the strong entrepreneurial brokerages with which it partners, encouraging their autonomy and culture while providing access to a multitude of stellar financial, technological, operational, training, marketing and other resources to accelerate growth.

The married pair, who formerly operated Realty Executives Elite, re-branded and launched London, Ont. - based StreetCity last summer, in partnership with Canadian real estate brokerage network Peerage Realty Partners.

Peerage Realty is a partner of Chestnut Park Real Estate, serving the luxury - home market and the Christie's affiliate for Toronto, and Baker Real Estate, which deals with new home development and condominium sales and marketing.

Apparently, Peerage Realty Partners, the well - funded parent company for Baker and Chestnut is looking to either acquire or partner with broker owners that are looking for an exit strategy.