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...wishes or other messages to the monarch, and represent the House to the [[House of Lords]] (the upper house), other parliamentary groups and the public. ...' is not formally made Speaker until they receive Royal Approbation in the House of Lords. This is required because the Speaker, as spokesperson for the Commons, has

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...hically determined parliamentary constituencies, whereas the those of the House of Lords are mostly appointed, having been chosen for their experience and expertise ...tation of the People acts of 1918 and 1928. The relative influence of the House of Lords was simultaneously reduced, and its power to overrule the House of Commons

...It continues, with some modifications, the appellate jurisdiction of the [[House of Lords]]. *impeachment, where the House of Commons prosecutes someone and the House of Lords acts as a court; no such prosecution has been brought for more than two cen

....publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldselect/ldeucom/129/12902.htm UK House of Lords: ''Re-launching the Single Market'', European Union Committee - First Repor

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...bers of the government at the head of a procession from the Commons to the House of Lords.

...rage]] since a [[Baronetcy]] did not entitle the holder to a seat in the [[House of Lords]] and allowed election to the [[House of Commons]], this distinction is now

...nt.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199900/ldselect/ldsctech/123/12301.htm House of Lords - Science and Technology - Sixth Report] What is Complementary and Alternat

*(UK) House of Lords Report on Banking Regulation and Supervision[http://www.parliament.uk/parli

...his scheduled retirement as Prime Minister, Johnson appointed Mount to the House of Lords appointments commission.<ref name=theguardian2022-09-02/><ref name=GovUkHMo | title = Independent Member for the House of Lords Appointments Commission

...e became 14th Earl of Home (known simply as 'Lord Home') and entered the [[House of Lords]]. Home became [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary]] ...he Heath government by that of [[Harold Wilson]], Home was restored to the House of Lords when he accepted a [[life peerage]], and became known as 'Baron Home of the

...eforms, including social insurance and the reduction of the power of the [[House of Lords]]. He led the nation into [[World War I]], but his faltering leadership in ...tive majority in Lords. Asquith's victory marked the permanent end of the House of Lords as a major base of political power. His [[Irish Home Rule]] bill was not so

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...s'' readers voted by a majority of 20 to 1 in favour of appealing to the [[House of Lords]]. The [[Law Lord]]s heard the appeal against conviction and delivered thei

...rs old. Although his Irish title gave him the right to sit in the [[Irish House of Lords]] he spent years in his early political career as a member of [[House of Co

...oday, on occasions when Royal Assent is given to Acts of Parliament in the House of Lords, the Clerk announces it, in most cases, in the words "Le roi le veut", mean

...ves the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords? Imagination, choked as in mephitic air, recoils on itself, and will not f

...nited Kingdom, this was as a result of ''R v. R''<ref>[1992] 1 AC 599, a [[House of Lords]] Judicial Committee case</ref> in 1991. [[India]] passed the [[Protection

...lf-made man, who made his fortune in the metals markets, and sits in the [[House of Lords]].<ref name=thesun2022-02-08/>