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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
Crossbench Life peer Former ballet dancer and writer Lord Burnett: 31 May 2006 Liberal Democrat Life peer Former MP for Torridge and West Devon from 1997 to 2005 Lord Burnett of Maldon: 30 October 2017 Crossbench Life peer Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2017–2023) Lord Burns: 20 July 1998 Crossbench Life peer
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 .
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.
The Conservatives have the most peers, with 273, while Labour has 187 and the Liberal Democrats have 78. There are also 184 "crossbench" peers who are not aligned to any party.
This is a list of life peerages in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 from 2010 to 2024, during the tenures of Conservative prime ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.
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 ...
Crossbench 16 August 2024 (p.m.) Tom Elliott ‡ Baron Elliott of Ballinamallard of Ballinamallard in the County of Fermanagh: Ulster Unionist 19 August 2024 (a.m.) Harriet Harman ‡ Baroness Harman of Peckham in the London Borough of Southwark: Labour 19 August 2024 (p.m.) Graham Brady ‡ Baron Brady of Altrincham