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Labour Party official, politician and Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords: Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws: 27 October 1997 Labour Life peer Criminal and human rights lawyer, chair of JUSTICE: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard: 30 June 2004 Crossbench Life peer Former Permanent Secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and head of the ...
Of the remaining ninety peers sitting in the Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage, 15 are elected by the whole House and 75 are chosen by fellow hereditary peers in the House of Lords, grouped by party. (A holder of a hereditary peerage who is given a life peerage becomes a member of the House of Lords without a need for a by-election.)
List of members of the House of Lords may refer to: List of current members of the House of Lords; List of life peerages; List of excepted hereditary peers; List of former members of the House of Lords (2000–present) List of hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999
The electorates are either the whole membership of the House of Lords (including life peers), or a party group of sitting hereditary peers. A standing order of the House, approved prior to the commencement of the House of Lords Act 1999, mandates that the 90 elected hereditary peers consist of: [1] 2 peers elected by the Labour hereditary peers
The Leader of the Labour Party in the House of Lords is the parliamentary chairperson of the Labour Party of the House of Lords. The Labour Party peers elect the Leader of the Labour Party in the House of Lords. When the Labour Party is the main party of opposition in the House of Commons, this post also acts as Shadow Leader of 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.
This is a list of members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, the House of Lords, British members of the European Parliament, members of the British devolved legislatures (such as the Scottish Parliament, Senedd, and Northern Ireland Assembly) and Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) who have changed their party affiliation (i.e. abandoning a previous party membership to take up a ...
This data template outputs the current number of peers (and bishops) of each party or parliamentary group in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, to facilitate site-wide updating. For updating this template, numbers can be sourced from the "Lords membership" page of the UK Parliament website.