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The story she told time and time again to a grateful media brought her fame, riches, and even a peerage.

In July 2001 he was found guilty and spent two years in jail, but retained his peerage and membership of the House of Lords as there was no mechanism to remove them at the time.

I'm sad but I think what will happen... is that the very best of the hereditary peers will be invited to have a life peerage.

Questions have been raised about why a former Welsh secretary was given a peerage despite writing a tell-all book about his time as the Conservative government's chief whip.

Former Chief Whip Simon Hart and former Scottish Secretary Sir Alister Jack, who stepped down as MPs ahead of last summer's general election, are among those to get peerages.