So, the first appointments to the House of Lords under the Liberal Democrat - Conservative coalition government and the last before it is replaced with a democratically elected upper chamber.
The list of the new Liberal Democrat Peers is as below;
Floella Benjamin OBE DL – actor, presenter and campaigner for children’s issues
Mike German OBE AM – former Deputy First Minister (Wales)
Meral Hussein Ece OBE – Local Government Councillor in Islington, advocate of equality issues
Sir Kenneth (Ken) Macdonald QC – former Director of Public Prosecutions
Kathryn (Kate) Jane Parminter – former Chief Executive of Campaign to Protect Rural England
John Shipley OBE – leading Local Government Councillor in Newcastle upon Tyne
and the dissolution list;
Richard Allan – former MP for Sheffield Hallam and Chair of the Information Select Committee
Matthew Owen John Taylor – former MP for Truro and St Austell, Chair of National Housing Federation
George Philip (Phil) Willis – former MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, Former Chair of Science and Technology Select Committee
For the full and comprehensive list of the 56 working Peers visit 10 Downing Street.
Another heavy blow for the Alba Party as popular senior member quits
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