The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house,the House of Commons,it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London,England. One of the oldest institutions in the world,its origins lie in the early 11th century and the emergence of bicameralism in the 13th century.
Christopher Stephen Grayling,Baron Grayling,,is a British politician and author who served as Secretary of State for Justice from 2012 to 2015,Leader of the House of Commons from 2015 to 2016 and Secretary of State for Transport from 2016 until 2019. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Epsom and Ewell from 2001 to 2024. Before entering politics,Grayling worked in the television and film industry.
Alexander Jesse Norman is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hereford and South Herefordshire since 2010.
Peter Forbes Ricketts,Baron Ricketts,is a retired British senior diplomat and a life peer. He has sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords since 2016.
Christopher Edward Wollaston MacKenzie Geidt,Baron Geidt,is a member of the House of Lords,former Courtier and Chairman of the Council of King's College London. He was Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II from 2007 to 2017.
David George Hamilton Frost,Baron Frost is a former British diplomat,civil servant and politician who served as a Minister of State at the Cabinet Office between March and December 2021. Frost was Chief Negotiator of Task Force Europe from January 2020 until his resignation in December 2021.
The Ministerial Code is a document setting out "rules" and standards for government ministers in the United Kingdom. Separate codes exist for ministers of the Scottish Government,the Northern Ireland Executive and the Welsh Government.
Andrew George Stephenson FRSA is a former British politician who most recently served as Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care from November 2023 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pendle in Lancashire from 2010 until 2024.
Evgeny Alexandrovich Lebedev,Baron Lebedev,is a Russian-British businessman,who owns Lebedev Holdings Ltd,which in turn owns the Evening Standard and ESTV. He is also an investor in The Independent.
Simon Gerard McDonald,Baron McDonald of Salford,is a British former diplomat who was the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service until September 2020. He was the last professional head of the Foreign &Commonwealth Office before the creation of the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office. He has been the Master of Christ's College,Cambridge since September 2022.
Natalie Jessica Evans,Baroness Evans of Bowes Park,,is a British politician and member of the House of Lords. A member of the Conservative Party,she was made a life peer in 2014 and from 2016 to 2022 was Leader of the House of Lords. She was the first Leader of the House of Lords to serve under two different prime ministers since Lord Shepherd in 1974,and the longest serving Lords leader since 1951.
Simone Jari Finn,Baroness Finn is a businesswoman and British-American Conservative politician who served as Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff from February 2021 until the end of the second Johnson Ministry.
Theresa May formed the first May ministry in the United Kingdom on 13 July 2016,after having been invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a new government. Then the Home Secretary,May's appointment followed the resignation of then Prime Minister David Cameron. The ministry,a Conservative majority government,succeeded the second Cameron ministry which had been formed following the 2015 general election. Cameron's government was dissolved as a result of his resignation in the immediate aftermath of the June 2016 referendum on British withdrawal from the European Union.
Stephen Parkinson,Baron Parkinson of Whitley Bay is a British Conservative member of the House of Lords who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts,Heritage and Libraries from March 2022 to July 2024.
On 28 August 2019,the Parliament of the United Kingdom was ordered to be prorogued by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of the Conservative prime minister,Boris Johnson—advice which was later ruled unlawful. The prorogation,or suspension,of Parliament was to be effective from some point between 9 and 12 September 2019 and would last until the State Opening of Parliament on 14 October 2019. As a consequence,Parliament was suspended between 10 September and 24 September 2019. Since Parliament was to be prorogued for five weeks and reconvene just 17 days before the United Kingdom's scheduled departure from the European Union on 31 October 2019,the move was seen by many opposition politicians and political commentators as a controversial and unconstitutional attempt by the prime minister to avoid parliamentary scrutiny of the Government's Brexit plans in the final weeks leading up to Brexit. Johnson and his Government defended the prorogation of Parliament as a routine political process that ordinarily follows the selection of a new prime minister and would allow the Government to refocus on a legislative agenda.
The second Johnson ministry began on 16 December 2019,three days after Boris Johnson's audience with Queen Elizabeth II where she invited him to form a new government following the 2019 general election. The Conservative Party was returned to power with a majority of 80 seats in the House of Commons. Initially the ministers were largely identical to those at the end of the first Johnson ministry,but changed significantly in cabinet reshuffles in February 2020 and September 2021.
Daniel Robert Rosenfield,Baron Rosenfield is a British political adviser and civil servant who served as the Downing Street Chief of Staff from January 2021 to February 2022. Between July 2007 and April 2011,he served as the principal private secretary to chancellors Alistair Darling and George Osborne,and subsequently as a managing director for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
The 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours are honours awarded following the September 2022 resignation of the Prime Minister,Boris Johnson.
Ross John Kempsell,Baron Kempsell is a British political adviser and life peer.
Charlotte Kathryn Tranter Owen,Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge is a British life peer and former special adviser. She has been a Conservative member of the House of Lords since 2023,and was the youngest recipient of a life peerage at the time of her appointment.
