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John Francis McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith PC (born 4 October 1944), is a Scottish politician and life peer who has served as Lord Speaker, the presiding officer of the House of Lords, since 2021. He was a member of Parliament for the Labour and Co-operative Party from 1987 to 2010, first for Dumbarton and then from 2005 for West ...
The Lord Speaker is the presiding officer of the House of Lords, chairman and highest authority of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The office is analogous to the Speaker of the House of Commons: the Lord Speaker is elected by the members of the House of Lords and is expected to be politically impartial.
Former Lord Speaker, former chairman of the House of Lords Communications Select Committee and former MP Lord Fox: 11 September 2014 Liberal Democrat Life peer PR director at GKN engineering and former Liberal Democrat chief executive Baroness Fox of Buckley: 14 September 2020 Non-affiliated Life peer Former MEP for North West England (2019–2020)
[7] [1] She sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords, where she was the Convenor of the Crossbench Peers from 2007 to 2011 with attendance "well above average". [4] [8] On 13 July 2011, D'Souza was elected Lord Speaker of the House of Lords and began her new role in September 2011. [9]
The Act no longer guarantees that the office holder of Lord Chancellor is the presiding officer of the House of Lords, and therefore allows the House of Lords to elect a speaker of their own. Charles Pepys as Lord Chancellor. The lord chancellor wore black-and-gold robes whilst presiding over the House of Lords.
The Lords Chamber on 12 April 2021: Lord Fowler sits on the speaker's woolsack, with two other peers on the judges' woolsack in front. The Woolsack is the seat of the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords, the Upper House of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The office was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which combined the Irish House of Commons and House of Commons of Great Britain, forming the modern Commons. [1]
In December 2022, Hoyle voiced opposition to his former party's plan of replacing the House of Lords with an elected upper chamber. [42] On 9 May 2023, Hoyle unveiled two new stained glass windows in the Speaker's House, at the Palace of Westminster. One featuring his new personal coat of arms, with a rugby league ball, bees and Lancashire roses.