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Lord Ashcroft may be forced to declare or confirm his tax status before the election after the Conservatives indicated that they were ready to push through changes to prevent non-tax residents sitting in Parliament, The Times has learnt. Full Article at Times Online
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I don't remember the last time the House of Lords met on two consecutive Sundays. But yesterday it was to vote on the conference report for a huge ($1.1 billion) appropriations bill. Full Article at Down With Tyranny!
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Britain's Leader of the House of Lords, Baroness Royall, arrives in Downing Street in London to attend the weekly cabinet meeting June 9, 2009. View Photo »
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Less than two years ago I took the Treaty of Lisbon through the House of Lords, if I had known what was going to happen to me, I might have paid more attention to my speeches on the (role of) High Representative
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A Conservative life peer has revealed that booking into a hotel used to give a "certain frisson", as her late husband had to use a different name. Full Article at BBC News
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Lord Anderson of Swansea writes for ePolitix.com ahead of his question in the House of Lords on changes to the Barnett formula for distributing funding to the UK's regions. Full Article at ePolitix
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Lord Clement-Jones writes for ePolitix.com ahead of his oral question in the House of Lords on the impact the points-based visa system is having on non-European Union artists and academics wanting to carry out bona fide activities but being denied... Full Article at ePolitix
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Janet Royall, the Leader of the House of Lords, leaves 10 Downing Street following the weekly cabinet meeting, in central London January 27, 2009. View Photo »
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I would have a referendum whenever you get to one million signatures. You have to trust the people, if we had done that we would not have gone to war in Iraq. The House of Commons should be reduced to 250 MPs and we should think about abolishing the House of Lords. We in UKIP are anti the political clas...
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London, England (LifeNews.com) -- The following update comes from John Smeaton, the head of the British pro-life group SPUC: Alison Davis, the well-known pro-life disabled rights advocate, is heading a challenge to July's House of Lords judgment in... Full Article at Lifenews.com
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[Archbishop of Canterbury] Dr Williams told The Daily Telegraph: “The trouble with a lot of Government initiatives about faith is that they assume it is a problem, it’s an eccentricity, it’s practised by oddities, foreigners and minorities." Full Article at RichardDawkins.net
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The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords". The Parliament comprises the Sovereign, the House of Commons (which is the lower house of Parliament and referred to as "the Commons"), and the Lords. Full Article
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If he is going to the House of Lords, it's best to be a crossbencher ... I will give advice to anyone, Labour or Conservative, but I wouldn't want to be associated with any one political party.
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I hope it makes it easier for judges to stand up to the legislature in the way the US Supreme Court can do by adopting the new title and being entirely separate from the House of Lords, which does sound old fashioned.
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In the next year we will remove the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. We will ask for a clear mandate to make the House of Lords an accountable and democratic second chamber.
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In the next year we will remove the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. We will ask for a clear mandate to make the House of Lords an accountable and democratic second chamber.
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I find the fact that backbenchers have no means of directly questioning prominent Ministers of the Crown because they happen to sit in the House of Lords to be less than satisfactory
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She was the minister who steered this law through the House of Lords and who insisted upon its stringent application. She has no excuse for breaking it
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Before devolution, the Lord Advocate, and the Solicitor General were most often members of either the House of Commons or the House of Lords ... The Lord Advocate left Scotland on the Monday and came back on the Thursday. The main department he was responsible for – the Crown Office – mainly saw the Lor...
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What is frustrating is that Peter Mandelson said in the House of Lords that this [the Hooper report] was probably the best researched, the best thought-through, the best evidence-based report they had seen. Virtually everyone except members of the parliamentary Labour party and the unions agreed with th...
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Alastair Campbell in London is a pal, and he gave me a shoebox full of cufflinks that relate to the House of Lords and the House of Commons. I was even offered a pair of George Bush cufflinks, but I declined – they were very much red-cowboy-style. On St Patrick’s Day, I was given House of Representative...
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