Life Peerage

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

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Labour’s Big Tech gamble

New Statesman 15 Oct 2024

The government’s new investment minister – the latest in a series of ministers imported from the normal world by means of a life peerage – is Poppy Gustafsson, who was the co-founder and CEO of the ...

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Meet Lord Norman Foster: the man set to transform San Diego Museum of Art

San Diego Union-Tribune 13 Oct 2024

... “produced significant contributions to humanity and the built environment.” He earned it in 1999, the same year Queen Elizabeth granted him a life peerage as Baron Foster of Thames Bank.

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Philip Noel-Baker: Only man to win Olympic medal and Nobel prize

The Siasat Daily 08 Oct 2024

These two feats symbolise mankind’s highest ranked successes ... He was raised to the Peerage and came to be known as Lord Phillip-Noel Baker thereafter. The man who had devoted his life to sports and peace, passed away at the age of 93 ... .

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Prince Joachim of Denmark

The Daily Mail 24 Sep 2024

In 2021, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson handed out a life peerage in the House of Lords and ministerial job to Offord, who had made large donations to the Conservative Party.

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Britain is finally abolishing hereditary peers from the House of Lords – a constitutional expert ...

The Conversation 23 Sep 2024

While some lines died out due to lack of male successors, pressure grew for the creation of life peerages rather than allowing members to pass their seat in the Lords on.

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We must resist the injustice of West Bank occupation

The Observer 22 Sep 2024

The Israeli government must stop acting as if it is above the law ... hereditary peers are indefensible, and the life peerage system has produced abominable results (“Unappealing as some life peers are, entitled lords are defending the indefensible”) ... .

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Where are the top players in the Scottish independence referendum now?

Metro UK 18 Sep 2024

After maintaining a low profile for many years, Cameron was appointed as foreign secretary and handed a peerage by PM Rishi Sunak in November 2023 ... Darling was nominated for a life peerage in 2015 and sat in the House of Lords until retiring in 2020.

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Who is Lord Pannick? Man City barrister that beat Champions League ban back for Premier League case

Yahoo Daily News 16 Sep 2024

READ MORE ... Pannick received a life peerage as a crossbencher in September 2008 and has since argued cases before the Appellate Committee ... In public life, Pannick has been a fellow at the University of Oxford's All Souls College since 1978 ... .

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Unappealing as some life peers are, entitled lords are defending the indefensible

The Observer 15 Sep 2024

But last week Baroness Jenny Jones, a Green party life ... And this is where Lady Owen of Wherever, along with Michelle Mone, Evgeny Lebedev and a host of regrettable life peerages, come to the rescue.

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ANDREW ROBERTS: Expertise and hard work is being thrown away because of Labour

The Daily Mail 10 Sep 2024

They also tend to hail from a wider geographical area of the country than the often London-based professionals and ex-MPs who make up much of the life peerage ... Sir Keir Starmer hands peerage to expenses-scandal former Labour cabinet minister.

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Millionaire donor at centre of Labour cronyism scandal

The Daily Mail 06 Sep 2024

The millionaire donor at the centre of Sir Keir Starmer's cronyism scandal has been accused of 'wrecking lives' by those who lost their life savings to one of his companies ... It destroyed my life.

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Why the House of Lords will be hard to abolish

New Statesman 06 Sep 2024

Rather than completing reform, it stuffed the upper chamber with new peers; Tony Blair retains the record for total life peerages handed out, at a whopping 374 in ten years, although David Cameron ...

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First a peerage, now a new plum job – why does Boris keeps promoting Charlotte Owen?

The Independent 06 Sep 2024

... was given a life peerage by Boris Johnson.

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Labour minister

The Daily Mail 06 Sep 2024

The Telegraph reported at the time, Lord Hendy did not comment on his private life and then Mayor of London Boris Johnson said there was no evidence of 'impropriety' ... In October 2022, as part of the Special Honours, Lord Hendy received a life peerage.

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