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Non-affiliated members of the House of Lords are peers who do not belong to any parliamentary group in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. They do not take a political party 's whip , nor affiliate to the crossbench group, nor are they Lords Spiritual (active Church of England bishops).
Lord Paul: 9 October 1996 Non-affiliated Life peer Resigned the Labour whip in October 2010 Lord Peach: 21 November 2022 Crossbench Life peer Air Chief Marshal, former chair of the NATO Military Committee, former Chief of the Defence Staff, former Chief of Joint Operations, former Chief of Defence Intelligence: Lord Pearson of Rannoch: 18 June 1990
Since its establishment in May 2000, the House of Lords Appointments Commission has nominated a total of 67 non-party-political life peers who joined the House of Lords as crossbenchers. [3] As of 8 January 2025 [update] , there are 184 crossbenchers, making up approximately 23 percent of the sitting members in the House of Lords.
Apart from retired Lords Spiritual and the surviving hereditary peers excluded under the House of Lords Act 1999, including the Marquess of Cholmondeley who was exempt from the 1999 Act by virtue of his position as Lord Great Chamberlain until the accession of Charles III in September 2022, [1] there are a number of living peers who have permanently ceased to be members of the House.
[5] [3] [6] She was a Lords spokesperson for the Cabinet Office in 2016. [3] In 2022, she became one of the six ladies appointed as "Queen's companions" to Queen Camilla. At the same time, she resigned the Conservative whip to sit as a non-affiliated member. [7] With her husband, she was invited to ride in the King's procession at Royal Ascot ...
The Lord Great Chamberlain is a hereditary office in gross post among the Cholmondeley, Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby and Carington families.. In 1902 it was ruled by the House of Lords that the then joint office holders (the 1st Earl of Ancaster, the 4th Marquess of Cholmondeley, and the Earl Carrington, later Marquess of Lincolnshire) had to agree on a deputy to exercise the office, subject ...
Claire Regina Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley (born 5 June 1960), is a British writer, journalist, lecturer and politician who sits in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated life peer. She is the director and founder of the think tank the Academy of Ideas (formerly Institute of Ideas).
Lord Inglewood is a non-affiliated member of the House of Lords, a barrister and a chartered surveyor. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2004, and a junior minister in the UK government from 1995 to 1997.