Sentences with phrase «working peer»

That inspires loyalty, admiration, and hard work your their peers.

The Labour leader was allowed to nominate ten people for a new list of working peers published yesterday.

Tony Blair's creation of a fistful of new working peers comes as the government faces an unprecedented crisis over its legislative programme.

«What we wanted was people with expertise in academies as working peers, taking the Labour whip, who could actively contribute with a massive amount of knowledge to the debate on education in the House of Lords.»

Large number of campaigners and businessmen feature in working peers list, including JCB chief and property tycoon

«Gove now almost level with Boris as Party members» favourite for next Tory leader Main 14 new Conservative Working Peers announced»

Mr Ashcroft, a millionaire business tycoon who spends most of his time in Belize, was nominated by Tory leader William Hague and is included in a list of new working peers published on Friday.

The millionaire car importer Bob Edmiston, who gave # 2m to the Tories, the Conservative party treasurer Stanley Fink, and the Labour donor Sir Gulam Noon were among 54 new working peers announced by Downing Street today.

It is understood that Mr Collins will be among about 50 new working peers on a list that is widely expected to be published today.

It is important to remember that many working peers have substantial interests outside Parliament so, in contacting them, it is worth considering going through non - Parliamentary channels.

-LSB-...] Lib Dem Working Peer Lord Smith of Clifton has blogged on the Social Liberal Forum website about his fears for the future of the party.

I became increasingly involved in policing and justice issues at national level, and in 2003, I was approached to become a Labour working peer, taking my seat in mid-June, 2004.

New working peers tend to be regular attenders, and Labour will have to rely on persuading crossbenchers to back Labour and on large numbers of Liberal Democrats abstaining to defeat the Conservatives in the Lords.

James Arbuthnot, now chairman of the Commons defence select committee, was «concerned about the appearance of inequity in the treatment of Mr Ashcroft in comparison with other non-domiciled working peers», the senior civil servant Sir Hayden Phillips wrote on 29 June 2000.

The online mode actually works peer to peer, so your gameplay will depend on both you are your opponents connection, which never seemed to be a problem throughout my experience in the game.

Arts Apprenticeship / Leadership — leading an arts activity with peers or another group and / or supporting a professional practising artist in their work

The second category are party political peers (often known as working peers).

In 2000, he also became a Member of the House of Lords as a Conservative working peer.

It admits that the overall increase of 25 in the coalition's number of working peers, compared to Labour's extra five, will reduce the number of defeats Labour is likely to be able to inflict between now and the next election.

Once you have the right people, surround them with hard - working peers.

Other proposals in the report include introducing «workfare» schemes based on a US model which makes it compulsory for benefit recipients to continue to work at local councils» expense - the aim being that «the daily life of benefit recipients should not be that different from the daily life of their working peers».

[70] Blair said all three men were known party donors and would have made excellent Labour «working peers».

In August 2013 she was appointed a working peer, [1] but she has said that she favours Lords Reform.

Included in the announced list were new «working peers»: 31 new Labour life peers recommended by Tony Blair to reduce the Tory majority; Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, recommended 11 new Liberal Democrat life peers; five were recommended by William Hague, the new Conservative Leader.

Stanley Fink, the Tories» treasurer, will also be made a working peer.

Baroness Jones, who was made a working peer last year, has been has been a member of the London Assembly since 2000.

The controversy over honours for political benefactors was reopened today with the appointment of a clutch of party donors and political apparatchiks as working peers.

There are no peerages, though at least a dozen new «working peers» - people expected to pull their weight in the Lords - are due to be gazetted shortly.

It is expected the new list of working peers will be announced on Thursday, with the Conservatives receiving an extra 15 working peers, the Liberal Democrats an extra 10 and Labour an extra five.

«John Prescott, the class warrior and opponent of the House of Lords, was named today as one of 54 working peers in a dissolution honours list largely reflecting the loyalties of the former prime minister, Gordon Brown.»

Bakewell was the tsar for the elderly in the last Labour government and will now become a working peer, even though her support for a means - tested winter fuel allowance is at odds with Miliband's stated commitment to universalism.

Mr Ashcroft's name was on a list of 33 working peers - 20 Labour, four Conservative and nine Liberal Democrats published on Friday.

As they share what they think, they take genuine pleasure in seeing — and contributing to — the work their peers have created.

A thousand dollars a week and you're probably still barely making ends meet after business expenses / costs of living, and probably wishing you had a steady paycheck like your working peers.

Casual Facebook or other messaging commenting adversely on one's employer or business activities, even gossiping about the boss and work peers, can all now be the subject of concern to the employer and indeed mandated by court order to be produced.

Talk to work peers and senior managers.

Wise job seekers will not only take stock of everything they've achieved and personally have to offer, they will seek input from family, friends and working peers as part of the resume making process.