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2024 Political Peerages
A list of nominations for life peerages was announced by the Prime Minister's Office on 20 December 2024. Life Peerages Labour *Prof. Wendy Alexander, – Vice Chair of the British Council, former Member of the Scottish Parliament for Paisley North and previously Labour Leader in the Scottish Parliament; to be ''Baroness Alexander of Cleveden'', ''of Cleveden in the City of Glasgow'' – 3 February 2025 *Sir Brendan Barber – former General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress and former chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service; to be ''Baron Barber of Ainsdale'', ''of Southport in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton'' – 20 January 2025 *Luciana Berger – former Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree and current Chair of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance; to be ''Baroness Berger'', ''of Barnhill in the London Borough of Brent'' – 6 February 2025 *Mary Bousted – formerly the Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), and educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a Product (mathematics), product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because the only ways of writing it as a product, or , involve 5 itself. However, 4 is composite because it is a product (2 × 2) in which both numbers are smaller than 4. Primes are central in number theory because of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic: every natural number greater than 1 is either a prime itself or can be factorization, factorized as a product of primes that is unique up to their order. The property of being prime is called primality. A simple but slow primality test, method of checking the primality of a given number , called trial division, tests whether is a multiple of any integer between 2 and . Faster algorithms include the Miller–Rabin primality test, which is fast but has a small chance of error ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Griffin
Theresa Mary Griffin, Baroness Griffin of Princethorpe (born 11 December 1962), is a British politician who served as a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England from 2014 to 2020. In the European Parliament, Griffin was aligned with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D). Early life Theresa Griffin was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, as the fourth child of Irish immigrant parents. Her father was a machinist in the British Leyland car factory and her mother was a teaching assistant. Griffin attended Bishop Ullathorne Comprehensive school and achieved a first class B.A. and an M.A. from Lancaster University. Political career Griffin has been a member of the Labour Party since 1988. She was a member of Unite's North West Political Committee and represented North West Constituency Labour Partys on the National Policy Forum. Griffin has also served as a Regional Organiser for the public services union, UNISON. She was Dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krish Raval
Krish Kumar Sureshchandra Raval, Baron Raval, is a British lawyer, life peer and the director of Faith in Leadership. Early life and education Raval was born in Ethiopia to Indian, Hindu parents. He read law at Trinity College, Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Career Raval is the director of Faith in Leadership, an organisation focused on interfaith cooperation for the public good established in the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings, and is a faculty member of the University of Cambridge's School of Divinity. He is also Chair of Labour Indians, and a member of City Sikhs' Advisory Board. He was nominated for a life peerage in December 2024 by Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the Labour Party as part of the 2024 Political Peerages. He was created ''Baron Raval, of Hertsmere in the County of Hertfordshire'' on 29 January 2025, swearing his oath of allegiance on the ''Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is''. Personal life Raval is Hindu. As a child, he attended the Bhaktivedanta M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Marie Rafferty
Anne Marie Rafferty, Baroness Rafferty (born 7 May 1958) is a British nurse, academic and researcher. She is the professor of nursing policy and the former dean of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King's College London. She served as President of the Royal College of Nursing from 2019 to 2021. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, the American Academy of Nursing, and the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2008, she was seconded to the Department of Health to work with Lord Ara Darzi on the Next Stage Review of the NHS and was subsequently appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to healthcare. She was a member of the Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery between 2009 and 2010, Front Line Care (Report published 2010). and a member of the Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales which reported in 2018. She is a current member of the NHS Assembly. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Pitkeathley
Simon William Bisson Pitkeathley, Baron Pitkeathley of Camden Town (born 9 May 1964), is a British businessman and life peer. He has been a member of the House of Lords since 2025. Early life and family Simon William Bisson Pitkeathley was born on 9 May 1964 to Thomas Pitkeathley and Jill Pitkeathley (). After his parents' divorce in 1978, Pitkeathley was raised with his younger sister Rachel Wilson by their mother. Career Pitkeathley became the chief executive of Camden Town Unlimited, a business improvement district (BID) in Camden Town, London, in 2007. He has also been the chief executive of Euston Town, a partner BID of Camden Town Unlimited, as well as Camden Collective, a project supporting start-ups and young entrepreneurs. Pitkeathley was the mayor of London's champion for small business prior to his appointment to the House of Lords. In 2014, Pitkeathley unsuccessfully sought to be the Labour Party candidate for the constituency of Holborn and St Pancras, a safe L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Nichols
Wendy Ruth Nichols, Baroness Nichols of Selby is a British politician, trade unionist and life peer. Early life Nichols is from Selby in North Yorkshire. Career Nichols is UNISON Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Convenor and Branch Secretary. A child of two Labour councillors, she served as a Labour councillor herself for the Selby North ward on Selby District Council from 1999 to the council's abolition in 2023. Her election to the council came as a result of a challenge to the High Court after she had initially being declared as having lost, due to a counting error. During her time as Councillor she served as Chair of the Scrutiny Committee; she was elected as a Honorary Alderwoman of the Council on 13 December 2022, in recognition of her "exceptional service". In 2007, she was selected as the Labour candidate for the Selby constituency at the 2010 general election, but stepped back from the role in September 2008 following the death of her husband of 28 years, Keith. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Moraes
Claude Ajit Moraes, Baron Moraes, is a British Labour Party politician, campaigner, and life peer who was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 1999 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU in 2020.>s Background Claude Moraes is of Indian descent. Born in Aden, he grew up in Scotland, having moved to Dundee aged five from India. His parents are Indian Catholics from Karnataka and Mumbai. He attended St Modan's High School, Stirling and studied law and postgraduate international law at the University of Dundee, Birkbeck, University of London and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was Associate Fellow at The City Law School, University of London. Previous work After leaving Scotland, Moraes lived and volunteered at Toynbee Hall, an East London charity, where he was later a Council Member. He was House of Commons researcher to MPs John Reid and Paul Boateng following the 1987 General Election and a national officer at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve McCabe
Stephen James McCabe, Baron McCabe (born 4 August 1955) is a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1997 to 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he represented Birmingham Hall Green from 1997 to 2010 and Birmingham Selly Oak from 2010 onwards. Early life and career Stephen McCabe was born on 4 August 1955 in Port Glasgow. He attended Port Glasgow High School before studying at Moray House College (later named Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh) in Edinburgh, where he was awarded a Diploma in Social Studies (Certificate of Qualification in Social Work) in 1977 and qualified as a social worker. He worked as a social worker in Wolverhampton for six years from 1977, and from 1978 to 1982 was a shop steward with the National and Local Government Officers Association. In 1983, he was appointed manager of the Priory in Thatcham, providing alternatives to care and custody for young people for Berkshire Social Services. He left the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Mattinson
Deborah Susan Mattinson, Baroness Mattinson (born 17 September 1956, Darlington) is a British political consultant and businesswoman. Early life and education Deborah Susan Mattinson was born on 17 September 1956 in Darlington, County Durham, to Dick Mattinson, an insurance broker, and Jo Mattinson. She has one brother, Robert. Mattinson attended Cheadle Hulme School for her secondary education before going on to study at the University of Bristol, where she earned an LLB degree. Career Political consultancy and public service Deborah Mattinson is a political consultant, senior business leader, serial entrepreneur, and charity trustee. She was appointed Director of Strategy for Labour leader Keir Starmer in July 2021 and played a pivotal role in the party's unprecedented electoral success three years later. Mattinson’s involvement in political consultancy dates back to 1987 when she worked alongside Peter Mandelson and Philip Gould to create Labour's Shadow Communication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Longfield
Anne Elizabeth Longfield, Baroness Longfield (born 1960) is a campaigner for children who formerly served as the Children's Commissioner for England. She was formerly chief executive of the charity 4Children. She was appointed the Children's Commissioner for England in March 2015 and was succeeded at the end of February 2021 by Dame Rachel de Souza. Early life and career Longfield was born to mother Jean, who was from a farming family, and father Vincent, an engineer who worked on Concorde. She grew up on a farm on The Chevin near Otley, West Yorkshire, and was educated at Prince Henry's Grammar School, Otley and Newcastle University, where she studied history. Longfield started working in the children's sector in the 1980s as a researcher with Save the Children. She subsequently served as Chief Executive of Kids Clubs Network. Prior to her appointment as Children's Commissioner, Longfield was Chief Executive of 4Children, a leading national children's charity, which deliv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Levitt
Alison Frances Josephine Levitt, Baroness Levitt, (born 27 May 1963), is a British barrister. She was the principal legal advisor to the director of public prosecutions from 2009 to 2014, working under Keir Starmer, and served as a circuit judge from 2021 to 2024. She was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2025. Early life and education Alison Levitt was born on 27 May 1963 in London. Her father, David Levitt, was an architect and co-founder of the architectural practice Levitt Bernstein, and her mother, Christian Bevington, was a circuit judge. Levitt attended the City of London School for Girls and studied at the University of St Andrews, where she gained a Scottish Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1986. Legal career Levitt was called to the bar in 1988 by the Inner Temple. Her private practice as a barrister in London focused on murder, rape, fraud, and other areas of serious crime. She chaired the Bar Council's Young Barristers' Committee in 1995 and was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Lemos
Gerard Anthony Lemos, Baron Lemos, (born 26 February 1958), is an Indian-British social policy researcher, author and life peer. Early life and education Gerard Anthony Lemos was born in India on 26 February 1958 to Ronald Lemos and Cynthia Lemos (. He grew up in Croydon, London, and was privately educated at Dulwich College before studying history and English at the University of York. Career Three years after leaving university, Lemos established ASRA Housing Association, an Asian housing association, in 1982 from the back room of a south-west London church hall. He was then the director of development of Circle 33 Housing Trust before co-founding the consultancy Lemos & Crane in 1990. From 2000 to 2004, Lemos was a member of the Audit Commission and served as the first head of its housing advisory board. He was a Civil Service commissioner from 2001 to 2006 and a non-executive director of the Crown Prosecution Service from 2006 to 2010. He was the chairman of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
