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Conservative health minister has big stake in Covid testing firm

Exclusive: Nick Markham, who co- founded Cignpost Investments during the pandemic, was given a peerage by Liz Truss

The Guardian - UK

UK's Online Safety Bill nears completion: What it means for internet oversight

This week, the UK's seminal piece of internet regulation, the Online Safety Bill, moved from the House of Commons to the House of Lords after being amended. It now includes a provision threatening tech bosses with two years in prison if they don't keep children safe online. But it no…

France 24

People won’t forget Justin Welby’s empathy failure on gay marriage

After the legalisation of same-sex marriage, I attended the gorgeous wedding of two friends in the crypt of the House of Lords. It was a straight event but the bride wore gold Vivienne Westwood and the chaplain barely blinked an eye at a succession of gay bridesmen walking her down…

Evening Standard

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NHS emergency care is ‘systemic national crisis’, warns House of Lords report

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak urged to convene Cobra meeting to address crisis

Evening Standard

Frost renews call to exclude medicines from Northern Ireland Brexit rules

Industry figures warn of supply ‘cliff edge’ when new regulations come into effect in December

The Guardian - UK

Tory MP tables Bill to move House of Lords close to Strictly ballroom in Blackpool

Tory former minister Paul Maynard introduced his Relocation of the House of Lords (Report to Parliament) Bill on Monday

Evening Standard

Tory MP tables Bill to move House of Lords close to Strictly ballroom

Tory former minister Paul Maynard introduced his Relocation of the House of Lords (Report to Parliament) Bill on Monday.

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Police in England and Wales to get new powers to shut down protests before disruption begins

Plans aimed at preventing tactics such as ‘slow marching’ part of Rishi Sunak’s public order crackdown

The Guardian - UK

Former Trade Union Congress boss joins Labour benches in House of Lords

FORMER Trades Union Congress boss Frances O’Grady has taken her seat on the red benches in the House of Lords.

The National (Scotland)

Mother’s plea: ‘Back Ella’s law to help save lives from toxic air’

MPs and ministers urged to make protection from pollution a human right

Evening Standard

Plans for 'Great South West' to become UK’s green powerhouse launched at House of Lords

Business leaders gathered at a special event in Westminster to hear how the £1.5m plans could help create tens of thousands of jobs and drive major investment into Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly, Devon, Somerset and Dorset

Birmingham Post

‘Independent Scotland would donate peers to UK as parting gift,’ SNP MP jokes

Perth and North Perthshire MP Pete Wishart made the irreverent suggestion as MPs debated reform of Westminster’s upper house.

The Independent UK

Brexiteer and former Tory chancellor retires from House of Lords

TORY former chancellor Nigel Lawson has retired from the House of Lords, ending a parliamentary career after nearly five decades.

The National (Scotland)

Tory ex-chancellor Nigel Lawson retires from Parliament after nearly 50 years

He represented the former Leicestershire constituency of Blaby in the Commons from 1974 until he joined the House of Lords in 1992.

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'Today is not like the 1980s, Rishi Sunak's bid to break the unions is wrong and will fail': Shipton

Rishi Sunak’s bid to introduce new anti-union laws is doomed to failure, argues Political editor-at-large Martin Shipton

The National (Scotland)

Anger as Tories make hereditary peer a minister overseeing benefits at DWP

RISHI Sunak’s Tories have been accused of showing “contempt for democracy” after they made a hereditary peer a minister in the Department…

The Guardian - UK

Key questions about the House of Lords

Letters: Conservative peer Timothy Kirkhope on what the upper house does well and how to ensure appointments to it are done on the right basis

Daily Mirror

Michelle Mone's husband gifted Tories 'at least £171k' as Covid PPE row rumbles on

Mone and husband Doug Barrowman allegedly benefited from multimillion-pound Covid PPE deal and three cash sums of £50,000 each and auction prizes were given to Tories by company linked to him

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The National (Scotland)

Scots ‘should be affronted’ by UK loophole which lets Lords be MSPs

BORIS Johnson sparked a mini constitutional crisis when he sought to use his resignation honours list to award peerages to sitting MPs such as…

The Independent UK

Archbishop of Canterbury stands by criticism of Government migrant policy

Justin Welby used a speech in the House of Lords to condemn the Government’s Rwanda plan.

Daily Mirror

'12 Reasons to be Cheerful this Christmas - from rescue hens to scrapping House of Lords'

Paul Routledge is in fine voice, spreading some festive joy to readers with his 'Twelve Reasons to be Cheerful that My True Love Brings to Me...'

Daily Mirror

Big Issue founder pleads 'save family from homeless fate I suffered as child'

The anti-poverty campaigner's family were turfed out of their home at Christmas in the 1950s - now, seven decades on, history looks set to repeat itself

The Conversation

From Queen Elizabeth to Sanna Marin, young women in politics have always faced prejudice

Two prime ministers meeting to discuss relations between their countries is standard practice in international politics. But New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern and Finland’s Sanna Marin had to defend a recent summit after a reporter asked whether they met because they are both young, female leaders.

The National (Scotland)

House of Lords spends thousands in taxpayer cash 'playing medieval dress up'

THE House of Lords spent thousands of pounds on upkeep of peers’ robes and other formal attire in the past 12 months.

The Independent UK

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