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Alister Jack 'heading to House of Lords' thanks to Boris Johnson honours list

The Tory MP for Dumfries, who has served as Scottish Secretary since 2019, could soon swap the House of Commons for the Lords.

Daily Record

Long delay to guarantee tips for hospitality staff ‘crazy’, Government told

It was pointed out far more divisive proposals would become law sooner.

The Independent UK

Michelle Mone spotted enjoying holiday in villa bought soon after PPE scandal

Baroness Mone, who is abroad with her husband, is at the centre of controversy after the company set up by business associate Anthony Page is being sued for more than £130million.

Glasgow Live

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Michelle Mone flies off to plush £7m Algarve villa bought after PPE police raid

Baroness Mone and hubby Doug Barrowman snapped up the £7million Algarve property through an offshore firm last July.

Edinburgh Live

Michelle Mone and husband jet off to villa bought three months after £200m PPE probe raid

The firm set up by their business associate Anthony Page is being sued for more than £130million by the Department for Health over gowns it claims could not be used in the NHS.

Daily Record

Plan for greater scrutiny of peerages could help to allay concerns over lords’ work rate

Letters: A bill now being taken through the upper house would extend the Lords appointments committee’s brief, says Conservative peer Timothy Kirkhope

The Guardian - UK

Tributes to 'good hearted' former Hyde and Stalybridge MP Lord Tom Pendry following tragic death aged 88

Lord Tom Pendry was MP for Stalybridge and Hyde for 31 years before being made a Labour peer in 2001

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Ruth Davidson claimed almost £25,000 in Lords expenses - but made just FOUR speeches

RUTH Davidson reportedly claimed nearly £25,000 in expenses from the House of Lords in just one year – despite only making only four speeches in…

The National (Scotland)

Former Edinburgh MSP Ruth Davidson claimed almost £25,000 in expenses in one year

The former Scottish Tory leader and Edinburgh Central MSP claimed £24,521 in expenses over a 12-month span. This was despite making just four speeches and asking only two questions.

Edinburgh Live

Secret House of Lords circle ‘shown to have worked with far right’

Email blunder sparks inquiry into New Issues Group’s ‘collaboration with Islamophobes’

The Guardian - UK

The hundreds of desperate Ukrainian children saved by Labour peer who fled Nazis

Refugee campaigner Lord Alf Dubs – himself evacuated as a child from Nazi Germany via the Kindertransport - began raising Valya Pylypenko’s case to then Home Secretary Priti Patel, in the House of Lords, to news outlets and to civil servants

Daily Mirror

Crypto firm with links to parliamentary groups appears to have vanished

Apparent disappearance of Phoenix Community Capital leaves some investors fearing they have lost large sums of money

The Guardian - UK

Key measures of bill to limit protest tactics defeated in House of Lords

Peers rejected letting police exercise stop and search without suspicion and sanction people without conviction

The Guardian - UK

Evgeny Lebedev goes full year without contributing to House of Lords

Newspaper owner made peer by Boris Johnson has only attended once in last year and did not speak or vote

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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s crazed tilt at red tape is quixotic nonsense. We need regulation to survive

The MP is wrong: rules are integral to democracies and stop us from returning to the squalor of the Britain that he romanticises

Evening Standard

Law firms that help rich and powerful to silence critics branded ‘attack dogs’

Members of the House of Lords have heaped fresh pressure on the Government to tackle so-called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation

Daily Record

Corsock potter named Maker of the Year at the UK Heritage Crafts Awards

Hannah McAndrew received the accolade at the House of Lords in London

Evening Standard

Church of England to discuss same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage has been legal for 10 years in England and Wales, but the state church does not allow its ministers to marry same-sex couples

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The National (Scotland)

Unelected Lords guzzled 300 bottles of bubbly and wine as economy tanked

UNELECTED Lords have guzzled more than 300 bottles of bubbly and wine since the Tories crashed the economy last year.

Evening Standard

Public Order Bill: Bid to clamp down on protesters heavily defeated in House of Lords

Peers rejected plans to let police exercise stop and search powers without suspicion

Daily Record

Lords drank £10,500 of champagne and prosecco in three months as UK economy tanked

EXCLUSIVE: Lords and their guests guzzled more than 300 bottles of fizz in Westminster between September and January.

Belfast Live

Ex-Northern Ireland secretary urges sanctions for parties refusing to power share

Lord Hain says any party which refuses to form a power sharing executive should have its funding withheld

The Independent UK

Just Stop Oil protests cost the Metropolitan Police £7.5m

The force said the money ‘could have been better used’ tackling ‘priority crime’ in local communities.

Wales Online

Pregnant women and new parents set for more protection to stay in work thanks to new law

The Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill will now go to the House of Lords after being supported unopposed in the House of Commons

The National (Scotland)

Tories slammed for spending £7 MILLION on 'fancy new door' for House of Lords

THE UK Government is accused of “wasting” public money after reports that it will spend £7 million to renovate the front door of the House of…

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