Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your Inbox by signing up to our Politics newsletter. Campbell is the former MP for North East Fife and was leader of the Liberal Democrats for almost two years in 2006 and 2007.
During her time in parliament she was elected as the party’s first female chair of the Liberal Democrats’ parliamentary party and served as parliamentary private secretary to chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander. In the decades since, various schemes to modernise the Lords have been promoted, only to perish at the hands of MPs. Lupton made his millions as the chairman of investment bank Greenhill Europe. Willetts was universities and science minister from 2010 until July 2014, overseeing the coalition’s controversial policy of tripling university tuition fees. It is the lack of democratic legitimacy that lies at the heart of why the Lords is both so tainted and so unreformed. As expected there is no peerage for former Speaker John Bercow who used Commons rules to frustrate the government’s Brexit plans but there is an honour for prominent leave supporter and controversial former England cricketer Sir Ian Botham.
If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can contact IPSO here. Question is, how many Labour members from the red north are now comfortably seated for life in London, thereby ensuring the established order is maintained throughout their green and pleasant land?
In his parliamentary career, Campbell was initially best known for opposing the second Gulf war – at a time when he had just been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma – and passionately opposing the Iraq war.
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This quickly took the overall size of the Lords to well over 800 members. This page shows eligible Members of the House of Lords, broken down by peerage, who can scrutinise bills, investigate government activity through committee work, and questions government through oral and written questions, as well as debates. Over his five decades in politics, he has written or edited 21 books – including a biography of Nelson Mandela and a book on the future of socialism published this year. The stakes couldn't be higher as Neil Lennon's battered and bruised Premiership champions go in search of three points in Lanarkshire.
He stepped down as home secretary in 2004 after a visa application for ex-lover Kimberly Quinn’s nanny was fast-tracked.
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