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Posted by Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W) on 18/07/2011
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Dear Lord Monckton
My predecessor, Sir Michael Pownall, wrote to you on 21 July 2010, and again on 30 July 2010, asking that you cease claiming to be a Member of the House of Lords, either directly or by implication. It has been drawn to my attention that you continue to make such claims.
In particular, I have listened to your recent interview with Mr Adam Spencer on Australian radio.
In response to the direct question, whether or not you were a Member of the House of Lords, you said “Yes, but without the right to sit or vote”. You later repeated, “I am a Member of the House”.
I must repeat my predecessor’s statement that you are not and have never been a Member of the House of Lords. Your assertion that you are a Member, but without the right to sit or vote, is a contradiction in terms. No-one denies that you are, by virtue of your letters Patent, a Peer. That is an entirely separate issue to membership of the House. This is borne out by the recent judgment in Baron Mereworth v Ministry of Justice (Crown Office) where Mr Justice Lewison stated:
“In my judgment, the reference [in the House of Lords Act 1999] to ‘a member of the House of Lords‘ is simply a reference to the right to sit and vote in that House … In a nutshell, membership of the House of Lords means the right to sit and vote in that House. It does not mean entitlement to the dignity of a peerage.”
I must therefore again ask that you desist from claiming to be a Member of the House of Lords, either directly or by implication, and also that you desist from claiming to be a Member “without the right to sit or vote”.
I am publishing this letter on the parliamentary website so that anybody who wishes to check whether you are a Member of the House of Lords can view this official confirmation that you are not.
David Beamish
Clerk of the Parliaments
15 July 2011
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UKIP’s Lord Dartmouth and the curious case of the disappearing peerage
As Nigel Farage is elevated (once again) to the UKIP leadership, his fellow MEP William Dartmouth appears to be sliding down the social scale.The South West UKIP MEP is the 10th Earl of Dartmouth. However, a recent communication from the party’s press office suggests he’s laid aside his 300-year-old peerage.The email in questions blithely refers to the noble lord as “Mr Dartmouth” no fewer than three times.If he’s really renounced his peerage, surely he should be using his family name and calling himself “Mr Legge”?This is precisely what Tony Benn did (ditching the double-barrelled Wedgewood bit along the way) when he stopped being Viscount Stansgate in order to qualify for election to the House of Commons in 1963.Since the House of Lords Act 1999, though, hereditary peers are no longer barred from standing for the Commons (as the same Act removed their entitlement to sit in the Lords).And the European Parliament – graced for 20 years by the head of Europe’s grandest royal family – has long extended a warm welcome to the blue-blooded.
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