Fulltime Peers On Pounds 50,000 a Year in Latest Lords Shake-Up

Daily Mail (February 01, 2007)

Author: Benedict Brogan

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PROFESSIONAL peers will earn around Pounds 50,000 a year with lavish allowances under the latest proposals to reform the House of Lords.

In what amounts to a constitutional revolution, half of the members would be elected for a single term lasting 15 years.

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Fulltime Peers On Pounds 50,000 a Year in Latest Lords Shake-Up

The other half would be nominated by the political parties and approved by the independent Appointments Commission.

Current life p...

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