House of Lords
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Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch...adopting more anti-European Union policies themselves. He has tabled a number of unsuccessful bills in the House of Lords demanding Britain's immediate withdrawal from the European Union. In November 2006 he tabled the European Union... In this article: Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch, United Kingdom Independence Party, Conservative Party, European Union, House of Lords, Britain, Islam, Eton College, Jacqui Smith, and David Cameron |
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BBC News | October 15, 2009
Far-right Dutch MP 'can enter UK'
...considered. Freedom of speech Mr Wilders, who faces trial in his own country for inciting hatred, is due to visit the House of Lords on Friday on the invitation of UK Independence Party peer Lord Pearson. He had tried to visit in February...
In this article: Geert Wilders, UK, Freedom Party, Fitna, UK Independence Party, House of Lords, and Heathrow airport
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BBC News | October 13, 2009
Dutch MP overturns UK entry ban
...London next week. In February, he had been invited by Lord Pearson to the House of Lords to show his controversial film Fitna, which caused outrage across the Muslim world when it was posted on the internet last year. When he was refused...
In this article: Geert Wilders, UK, Fitna, BBC, Democracy, Freedom Party, and House of Lords
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Guardian | October 15, 2009
Far-right Dutch MP allowed to enter UK
...lead to "inter-faith violence". Lord Pearson, a Ukip member of the House of Lords, had invited Wilders to screen the 17-minute Fitna, a film that criticises the Qur'an, calling it a "fascist book". Forty-six year-old Wilders was...
In this article: Geert Wilders, UK, Fitna, House of Lords, Ministry of Justice, Ukip, Alan Johnson, Jacqui Smith, and Heathrow airport
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Wikipedia | October 04, 2009
Richard Norton, 8th Baron Grantley
...Conservative until resigning from the party to join the United Kingdom Independence Party, when he became its sole representative in the House of Lords. Upon reform of the House of Lords by the House of Lords Act 1999, he was one of many...
In this article: House of Lords, 1983 General Election, House of Lords Act 1999, Ampleforth College, United Kingdom Independence Party, and New College
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Guardian | October 16, 2009
Far-right Dutch MP arrives in UK
...Geert Wilders, life can be cruel." Wilders is in the UK to thank his lawyers and to meet Lord Pearson, the Ukip member of the House of Lords who originally invited him to screen the 17-minute Fitna. Wilders was refused entry to the UK...
In this article: Geert Wilders, United Kingdom, Fitna, House of Lords, Muslim Council of Britain, Ministry of Justice, Ukip, Jacqui Smith, and Mein Kampf
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
United Kingdom Independence Party
...the United Kingdom from the European Union. UKIP currently holds thirteen seats in the European Parliament and two in the House of Lords (the latter due to the defection of Conservative peers). It also has around 100 local councillors on...
In this article: United Kingdom Independence Party, Nigel Farage, Conservative Party, European Union, Jose Manuel Barroso, Michael Holmes, Robert Kilroy-Silk, and Bob Spink
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Guardian | October 13, 2009
Wilders wins appeal against UK ban
...inter-faith violence". The Freedom party leader immediately announced his intention to meet Ukip's Lord Pearson of Rannoch to discuss a showing of his anti-Islamic film Fitna later this month in the House of Lords. Judge CMG Ockelton, who...
In this article: Geert Wilders, UK, Jacqui Smith, Fitna, Ukip, House of Lords, and Lord Pearson of Rannoch
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Wikipedia | October 30, 2009
House of Lords
...42 hereditary peers elected as Conservatives, one (Lord Brabazon of Tara ) now sits as a non-affiliated member, having become the House of Lords' Chairman of Committees, and another (Lord Willoughby de Broke ) now sits as a UKIP...
In this article: House of Lords, House of Commons, Labour Party, Margaret Thatcher, Parliament Acts, and Life Peerages Act 1958
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Independent.co.uk - Leading Articles | February 12, 2009
Leading article: A ban that only helps the extremists - on both sides
The UK Independence Party peer's invitation to the Dutch politician Geert Wilders to attend a screening of his offensively anti-Islamic film, Fitna, in the House of Lords was intended as a publicity generating act of provocation. It has...
In this article: Geert Wilders, Britain, Ch4, Fitna, Separatism, UK Independence Party, House of Lords, European Union, and Lord Pearson of Rannoch
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The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords". The Parliament comprises the Sovereign, the House of Commons (which is the lower house of Parliament and referred to as "the Commons"), and the Lords. Membership of the House of Lords was once a right of birth to hereditary peers, but following a series of reforms the House now consists almost entirely of appointed members. the House of Lords has 743 members, 97 more than the 646 seat House of Commons.
The full, formal title of the House of Lords is The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled.
- Name:
- The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled
- Website:
- http://www.parliament.uk/lords/
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