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Lord Wakeham
Conservative Peer
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- Became a Lord in 1992
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Lord Wakeham voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted moderately against equal gay rights. votes
- Voted moderately for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Has never voted on allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted moderately against the hunting ban. votes
- Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted very strongly against more EU integration. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
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- Occasionally rebels against their party.
Most recent appearances
- Queen's Speech — Debate (2nd Day) (10 May 2012)
“My Lords, it is a great pleasure for me to follow the Convenor of the Cross Benches. I have always had great respect for Convenors of the Cross Benches. I remember that when I arrived in the House as Leader the Convenor of the Cross Benches was Lady Hylton-Foster. I consulted her on the appointment of someone to an important position and said that there was a question as to whether they might...”
- Queen's Speech — Debate (2nd Day) (10 May 2012)
“It is another story as to why the noble Lord did not get anywhere with it. I will not bore the House with it now, but he and I know many of those reasons. The main lesson of my report has not been learnt even to this day. Our report recommended a compromise, and that is why people did not like it. Everybody compared their ideal solution with our compromise, and our compromise looked weak and...”
- Queen's Speech — Debate (2nd Day) (10 May 2012)
“I will be frightfully indiscreet and say that if I were still in charge of business management, I would be 100% in favour of my noble friend's Bill but probably would still not have given it government time to get it through, because I know perfectly well what happens. Every single amendment you can think of would have been added to it, and the timetable of the Government would have been...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 3 debates in the last year — below average amongst Lords.
- Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — average amongst Lords.
- Has voted in 43.85% of votes in this House with this affiliation — average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 1 annotation on this Lord’s speeches — average amongst Lords.
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- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 63 times in debates — average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)