Category: Lords, House of
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Bridging the disability employment gap
13th March 2016There has been a lot of adverse comment, both on social media and elsewhere, regarding the recent cut to Employment Support Allowance (ESA) – much of it in the form of tedious memes about Tory MPs’ expenses claims (which now pass through an independent authority and, when looked into, usually account for paying staff). But such…
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- DUNCAN SMITH, Rt Hon Sir Iain, MP (Con, Chingford & Woodford Green)
- Employment Support Allowance (ESA)
- Government
- HUTTON of FURNESS, John, Lord (Labour peer)
- Jobseekers' Allowance (JSA)
- Labour Party
- Lords, House of
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- Universal Credit
- Welfare
- Work Capability Assessment
- Work Related Activity Group (WRAG)
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Lord Howe of Aberavon (1926-2015) – RIP
11th October 2015I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of former Conservative Chancellor, Lord Howe of Aberavon, at the age of 88. Geoffrey Howe was Margaret Thatcher’s longest-serving Cabinet minister and was one of the primary authors of her government’s economic revolution. Although best remembers as Mrs Thatcher’s first chancellor, he was also the second…
- Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985
- BIFFEN, John, Lord, PC DL (late Tory Peer)
- Bow Group
- BRITTAN of SPENNITHORNE, Leon, Lord, PC QC (late Tory peer)
- BROOKS, Dr Edwin
- BUTLER of SAFFRON WALDEN, R. A., Lord, KG CH (late Tory peer)
- CAMILLA, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, GCVO
- CARRINGTON, Peter, 6th Lord, KG GCMG CH MC (late Tory peer)
- Centre for Policy Studies
- Community Charge (Poll Tax)
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- CORBYN, Rt Hon Jeremy, MP (Ind, Islington North & fmr Leader of the Opposition)
- Economy
- ELIZABETH II, HM The Queen
- Employment Act (1980)
- Euro (European Single Currency)
- Europe
- Exchange Rate Mechanism
- FOOT, Rt Hon Michael, FRSL (late Labour MP)
- GILMOUR of CRAIGMILLAR, Iain, Lord (late Tory peer)
- Government
- GREY of FALLODEN, Edward, 1st Viscount, KG (late Liberal Foreign Secretary)
- HEAD, Anthony (actor)
- HEALEY, Dennis, Lord, CH MBE FRSL (late Labour Chancellor)
- HEATH, Rt Hon Sir Edward, KG MBE (late Tory PM)
- HESELTINE, Michael, Lord, CH (Tory peer)
- Hong Kong
- HOSKYNS, Sir John
- House of Lords Reform Act (2014)
- HOWARD of LYMPNE, Michael, Lord, CH QC (Tory peer)
- HOWE of ABERAVON, Geoffrey, Lord, CH QC (late Tory Chancellor)
- HOWE of IDLICOTE, Elspeth, Baroness, CBE (Tory peer)
- HOWE, B. Edward
- Industrial Relations Act (1971)
- INGHAM, Sir Bernard
- Iron Lady, The (film)
- JENKINS, Sir Simon, FSA FRSL (journalist)
- JOSEPH, Keith, Lord, CH (late Tory peer)
- KAUFMAN, Rt Hon Sir Gerald (late Labour MP)
- LAMONT of LERWICK, Norman, Lord (fmr. Tory Chancellor)
- LAWSON of BLABY, Nigel, Lord (fmr. Tory Chancellor)
- LILLEY, Peter, Lord (Tory peer)
- Lords, House of
- MacDONALD, Rt Hon Ramsay (late Labour PM)
- MACLEOD, Rt Hon Iain (late Tory MP)
- MAJOR, Rt Hon Sir John, KG CH (fmr. Tory PM)
- OAKSHOTT, Hendrie, Lord (late Tory peer)
- Office of Fair Trading
- Parliament, Houses of
- POWELL of BAYSWATER, Charles, Lord, KCMG OBE (Tory peer)
- PRIOR, Jim, Lord (late Tory peer)
- REIGATE, John, Lord (Sir John Vaughan-Morgan) (late Tory peer)
- Right Approach to the Economy, The
- SHAND, P. Morton
- SHULTZ, Prof George P
- ST JOHN of FAWSLEY, Norman, Lord, FRSL (Sir Norman St John-Stevas) (late Tory peer)
- STOCKTON, Harold, 1st Earl of, OM FRS (Harold Macmillan) (late Tory PM)
- STRAUSS, Norman
- STREEP, Meryl (actress)
- TEBBIT, Norman, Lord, CH (Tory peer)
- THATCHER, Margaret, Baroness, LG OM (late Tory PM)
- THORNEYCROFT, Peter, Lord, CH (late Tory peer)
- WALTERS, Prof Sir Alan
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Tony Benn 1925-2014
15th March 2014It is difficult to sum up the emotions I feel at the death of Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn – better known as Tony Benn. He was unquestionably one of the great political iconoclasts of XX-Century British politics – a man of firm conviction and probably one of the Left’s most erudite and sympathetic advocates. No…
- 'APPLEBY, Sir Humphrey' (fictional character)
- BENN, Flt Lt the Hon Michael, DFC
- BENN, Hon Emily (fmr Labour cllr in Croydon)
- BENN, Rt Hon Hilary, MP (Lab, Leeds Central)
- BENN, Rt Hon Tony (late Labour MP)
- BENN, Sir John, Bt (late Liberal MP)
- CHURCHILL, Rt Hon Sir Winston, KG &c (late Tory PM)
- CRIPPS, Rt Hon Sir Stafford (late Labour MP)
- FOOT, Rt Hon Michael, FRSL (late Labour MP)
- GANDHI, Mahatma
- HOLMES, Daniel
- KINNOCK, Neil, Lord (Labour peer)
- Labour Party
- LLOYD-GEORGE of DWYFOR, David, 1st Earl (late Liberal PM)
- Lords, House of
- MacDONALD, Rt Hon Ramsay (late Labour PM)
- SAYEED, Jonathan (fmr. Tory MP)
- ST CLAIR, Lt-Col Malcolm (late Tory MP)
- STANSGATE, Stephen, 3rd Viscount
- STANSGATE, William, 1st Viscount (William Wedgwood Benn) (late Labour peer)
- THATCHER, Margaret, Baroness, LG OM (late Tory PM)
- VARLEY, Eric, Lord (late Labour peer)
- WIDDECOMBE, Rt Hon Ann (fmr. Tory MP)
- WILSON of RIEVAULX, Harold, Lord, KG (late Labour PM)