Tag: House of Lords
11 months ago
mirror.co.uk

Three in four oppose PM creating new Lords so they can parachute them into Cabinet

Just 23% of respondents said such a move was acceptable - with more than double - 49% - saying it was not acceptable.

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about 1 year ago
nationalworld.com

Lord Alan Haworth: Labour politician dies aged 75 after falling ill on cruise ship holiday

The Labour Party has confirmed that Alan Haworth died on holiday in Iceland on Monday morning

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over 1 year ago
nationalworld.com

Illegal Migration Bill: controversial bill set to become law after House of Lords backs down over...

The bill, aimed at stopping small boats crossing the English Channel, has become highly controversial with the upper ...

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over 1 year ago
scotsman.com

SNP Westminster deputy leader Mhairi Black has bomb proofing and panic alarms at house due to thr...

The SNP deputy Westminster leader announced she would be standing down at the next general election last week, citing...

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over 1 year ago
inews.co.uk

Rishi Sunak forced to delay HS2 law and six other bills until at least 2024

Battles in the House of Lords are holding up another shrunken legislative programme, with government insiders taken a...

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over 1 year ago
mirror.co.uk

Labour launch last-ditch bid to stop Partygate Tory Shaun Bailey's peerage

Tory Lords bosses have been urged to step in and prevent the failed Mayoral candidate accepting a peerage within two ...

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over 1 year ago
nationalworld.com

House of Lords: ex-Tory ministers Philip Hammond and Gavin Barwell had less than 10% attendance l...

Phil Hammond and Gavin Barwell both have a number of lucrative jobs outside the House of Lords

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over 1 year ago
mirror.co.uk

Partygate Tory Shaun Bailey admits he WAS in building during 'jingle and mingle' bash

The failed Tory London Mayor candidate admitted, through his lawyers, that his claim to have left to go on BBC Newsni...

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over 1 year ago
mirror.co.uk

Lib Dems hope to capitalise on voter anger over 'absent' Nadine Dorries in by-election

Anger at Ms Dorries among her constituents had been bubbling long before her rage-quit over Mr Johnson’s honours list

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over 1 year ago
inews.co.uk

Nadine Dorries says she will not resign from Commons until she sees messages about Lords bid

The former Cabinet minister said 'varying and conflicting statements issued by No 10' about her political future mean...

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over 1 year ago
nationalworld.com

Who has Boris Johnson nominated to join the House of Lords in his resignation honours list?

Two of Johnson’s nominees will become the youngest members of the House of Lords when they take their seats

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over 1 year ago
mirror.co.uk

Tories fork out huge sums for lunch with Rees-Mogg and bubbly signed by Boris at charity auction

The lots were sold at a gala dinner during a conference of the Boris Johnson-backing Conservative Democratic Organisa...

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over 1 year ago
mirror.co.uk

Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner answer YOUR questions - from knife crime to WASPI women

Hundreds of Mirror readers wrote in with questions for Labour's leader and deputy leader - on diverse topics includin...

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over 1 year ago
mirror.co.uk

Most of public oppose Liz Truss handing out 'reward for failure' peerages

Outgoing PMs are allowed to stuff friends and cronies into the House of Lords in their ‘resignation honours’ lists - ...

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over 1 year ago
telegraph.co.uk

Switch from red meat to venison to save the rainforest, suggests peer

Lord Turner insists deforestation will continue to get worse unless consumers significantly cut back on meats includi...

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over 1 year ago
mirror.co.uk

King Charles sets himself 6pm bedtime curfew before Coronation for a very sweet reason

King Charles is understood to have told aides he won't be doing any royal duties after 6pm on the evening of May 5 de...

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over 1 year ago
mirror.co.uk

Woman claims 'Premier Inn would’ve left me to die in fire because I’m a wheelchair user'

Dr Hannah Barham-Brown had been in London to attend a Motability event at the House of Lords when she was stuck on th...

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almost 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Loopholes let ex-advisers 'fly under the radar' as most get jobs as 'shadow lobbyists'

More than half of the 521 Special Advisers who left Whitehall between 1997 and 2017 got jobs in advocacy or lobbying ...

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almost 2 years ago
nationalworld.com

Conservative peer taking ‘leave of absence’ has only spoken five times in seven years

The Conservative peer has averaged 2.5 days attendance in the House of Lords per month since October 2015

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almost 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Michelle Mone takes 'leave of absence' from House of Lords amid PPE contract claims

Questions have been raised over her alleged links to a firm - PPE Medpro - who were awarded a £200 million government...

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almost 2 years ago
nationalworld.com

Labour will strive to remove House of Lords ‘as quickly as possible’

Labour has said that it would abolish the House of Lords and replace it with a new democratic upper chamber

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almost 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

King Charles calls painter David Hockney's bright yellow croc shoes 'beautiful'

The monarch commented on the "galoshes" and said they were beautifully chosen at a reception at Buckingham Palace wit...

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almost 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Shamed former peer takes UK government to European Court - from his prison cell

Ex-Labour Lord Nazir Ahmed, who was jailed in February for separate sexual offences against two children in the 1970s...

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almost 2 years ago
liverpoolworld.uk

Labour promise to abolish the House of Lords if elected to government - here’s why

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to confirm plans to abolish the House of Lords in the next manifesto.

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almost 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Boris Johnson's 'crony' peerage list sparks demands for Lords reform inquiry

Suggested changes include halving the number of peers and banning PMs who left in disgrace from making nominations

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almost 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Boris Johnson met with son of ex-KGB oligarch the day after he was sanctioned

The then-Prime Minister met with Lord Lebedev the day after his father was hit by war sanctions in Canada. Former spy...

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about 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Harry and Andrew could be sidelined from state affairs with new Palace proposal

A new plan is set to be put forward in the coming weeks which would allow King Charles to select Counsellors of State...

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about 2 years ago
nationalworld.com

Here’s why Parliament is on a break and when it will be recalled

Throughout the parliamentary year, the House of Commons and House of Lords will close six times

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about 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Liz Truss and senior MPs swear oath of loyalty to King Charles in House of Commons

Cabinet ministers and senior MPs lined up to swear an oath to the monarch - something that normally happens after a g...

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about 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Boris Johnson hands 'quivering fanboy' job on committee approving peerages

Number 10 announced Harry Mount, a former Bullingdon Club member and second cousin of David Cameron, would be install...

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about 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak urged to show how they would restore trust in politics

Some 15 democracy groups have warned leadership contenders trust in politics has been "severely dented" in the decade...

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about 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Peers hand out 25% fewer Parliament passes since crackdown on lobbyists

Last April the Mirror revealed some 566 passes had been sponsored by peers - which has dropped to just 419 this year,...

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about 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Liz Truss launches legal clash with EU over UK access to science programmes

Now the Foreign Office says EU chiefs have refused to finalise UK access - and has entered a formal process in a bid ...

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over 2 years ago
cityam.com

Humiliating defeat for govt as peers order new post-Brexit UK Infrastructure Bank to pay for eco-...

The Government faced a humiliating defeat last night as peers voted to support a move the UK Infrastructure Bank supp...

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over 2 years ago
inews.co.uk

Ministers force through controversial laws at the last minute as Parliament prorogues

The Government forced through legislation designed to tighten Britain's borders regime, crack down on aggressive prot...

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over 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Tory minister accused of trying to 'fool' peers with claims on voter ID crackdown

Lord True defended the move because in Northern Ireland, where photo ID was introduced in 2002, turnout was higher th...

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over 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Powerful commons committee urged to quiz Boris Johnson over Lebedev peerage

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has called on the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs to investigate ...

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over 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Boris Johnson accused of being open to blackmail over Russian's 'bunga bunga' parties

Labour MP Matt Western claimed British intelligence services may "not entirely trust" Boris Johnson - and accused him...

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over 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Boris Johnson branded 'national security threat' over fundraiser hours before Ukraine war

The Prime Minister spoke at ‘London's most magnificent 18th-century aristocratic palace’ - with a prominent Russian-b...

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