Why Peer Pressure has No Honour Left ; the Current Row Over the Offer of Peerages in Return for Party Political Donations Is Merely the Latest Manifestation of a Scandal Which has Dogged the Honours System for Centuries, As Chris Moncrieff Reports

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James I started it all by putting a price-tag on baronetcies in the 17th century.

But those little favours were as nothing compared with the blatant corruption, the vast sums of money which changed hands and even the blood which was shed in the pursuit of grand titles - at a price - during the early decades of the 1900s.

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Why Peer Pressure has No Honour Left ; the Current Row Over the Offer of Peerages in Return for Party Political Donations Is Merely the Latest Manifestation of a Scandal Which has Dogged the Honours System for Centuries, As Chris Moncrieff Reports

David Lloyd George, the Liberal and subsequently Coalition Prime Minister (1916-23), has never been surpassed as the super-salesman of honours.

He shamelessly lined his own pockets and th...

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