Sentence examples for hereditary peerage from inspiring English sources

His struggle nearly 40 years ago to renounce his peerage so that he could sit as a commoner in the elected house seems a small thing now that hereditary peerage itself is on the point of being evicted from Westminster.

A knighthood? Lynton Crosby deserves a hereditary peerage.

He likes being in the House of Lords and puts his hereditary peerage above politics.

We have a hereditary peerage, whose families have been bound up with land and our history.

When happiness does come our way, it is entirely without effort, as unmeritocratic as a hereditary peerage.

It is notable, too, that representation from the hereditary peerage on that plutocrats' list is falling too.

1964 – With the accession of a Labour government, hereditary peerages cease to be granted outside the Royal Family, with the exception of two grants by Margaret Thatcher and a baronetcy created in 1991 for Sir Dennis Thatcher.

Don't even get me started on hereditary peerages.

Two years later, he attacked hereditary peerages and urged the abolition of private schools, attacking Labour MPs who used them.

It was Edward Heath the moderniser who broke that habit by continuing Labour's policy of not awarding hereditary peerages.

With the exception of hereditary peerages, this system remains largely intact nearly a century later - but is it still fit for purpose?