0 in the UK, a person who is given the honour of a title such as "Lord" and a place in the House of Lords as a reward for the good things they have done for the country --
Membership is not fixed and decreases only on the death of a life peer.
If landfill is a life peer, major sites with incinerators must be dukes: they last an awful lot longer, and they cost an awful lot more.
There is one possible application of the writ of acceleration in future—if the eldest son of an existing hereditary peer were to be made a life peer.
If we are to decide whether a life peer has a genuine connection with his region of origin, it is not enough merely to consider where he came from.
I have never tried to do that, or to suggest that it is obligatory upon anybody, either of the party opposite or of this party, to become a life peer.
Anyone who was unfortunate enough to be asked to become a life peer but had no income or means of his own would be unable to carry out his duties.
I emphasise that the proposals secure the right of the life peer to vote whatever his speaking or voting record in a party political sense may be.
I do not think that he was the type who would have been vulgar enough to become a life peer.
