Tag: House of Lords
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Political Peerages December 2024
20 December 2024 The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life. Nominations from the Leader of the Conservative Party: Nigel Biggar CBE – Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford and Anglican priest. “Raising Nigel Biggar to the Lords is…
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Why Anglican bishops should sit in a reformed House of Lords
Originally published on 7 August 2014 for Theology. By Nigel Biggar. Why Christianity benefits secular public discourse, and why, therefore, Anglican bishops should sit in a reformed House of Lords Since the failure of the Coalition government’s attempt – or rather the Liberal Democrats’ attempt – to reform the House of Lords in 2012, the…
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An elected upper chamber will not reform the lords in the way required
Originally published on 15 August 2015 for The Herald. By Nigel Biggar. Lord Sewell’s scandalous conduct has been a gift to the professional enemies of the British constitution. Thus Pete Wishart, the SNP’s leader in the Commons, has used the occasion to mock the House of Lords as “the most absurd and ridiculous legislature anywhere…