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A crossbencher is a minor party or independent member of some legislatures, such as the British House of Lords and the Parliament of Australia. They take their name from the crossbenches, between and perpendicular to the government and opposition benches, where crossbenchers sit in the chamber.
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).
List of hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999 This page was last ...
Pages in category "Crossbench life peers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 332 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The former MI5 boss and independent crossbench peer said: “I don’t agree that this is a total miscarriage of justice. “Lady Meyer changed her story, she had ample time to question and ...
Crossbench Life peer Chief executive of the Royal Opera House, former director of news at the BBC, chairman of Creative & Cultural Skills and former chair of the Royal Television Society: Baroness Hallett: 11 October 2019 Crossbench Life peer Former Lady Justice of Appeal: Lord Hameed: 27 March 2007 Crossbench Life peer
The duke is the most senior lay member of the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and a crossbench peer in the House of Lords. An Oxford-educated father of five, he is a descendant of Elizabeth I and ...
28 peers elected by the crossbench hereditary peers; 15 peers elected by the whole House; By convention, whole-House elections elect members of the same affiliation as the departed peer. [2] These numbers elected by each group reflected the relative strengths of the parties among hereditary peers in 1999; this allocation has remained unchanged ...