‘Johnson’s dishonours list underlines why Labour must overhaul the Lords’
Robbie Burns famously said that when “ye see yon birkie ca’d a lord/who struts, an’ stares, an’ a’…
Peerage
Jack Straw cleared after lobbying sting
Former Cabinet minister Jack Straw has been cleared by the Parliament Standards Commissioner for his conduct in a…
“An important contribution to the immigration debate”? The poisonous rhetoric of Cameron’s Lords nominee
Andrew Green has been nominated by David Cameron to be a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords.…
Is Michael Cashman about to be made a peer?
Rumours have been circulating all week about the possibility of Michael Cashman being elevated to the House of…
Doreen Lawrence to become Labour peer
Doreen Lawrence – the campaigner and mother of Stephen Lawrence – looks set to be confirmed as a…
