We also welcome the conferment of a life peerage on her yesterday.
It is nonsense to think that he could be bought off with a life peerage.
The acceptance of a life peerage involves a considerable commitment on the part of those concerned.
I also suggest that the life peerage is probably at least as much the repository of expertise in individual fields as the hereditary peerage.
I understand that they have been sent a letter suggesting that they will be offered a life peerage, should they so wish.
No one is forced to accept a life peerage.
How that life peerage is obtained obviously will be caused by the usual processes.
The conclusion was that no life peerage had been conferred for 400 years and that the prerogative power had fallen into desuetude.
