Life Peerages Act 1958 figures, for example the former Secretary of State for India and earlier for Air, Viscount Stansgate. The last Prime Minister and the last non-royal to be created an Earl was paradoxically one of the 1958 Act's proponents, Harold Macmillan, on Margaret Thatcher's advice, in the 1980s. Since her time, only members of the Royal Family have been granted new hereditary peerages. In 1999, during the debate which secured the removal of the constitutional functions of most hereditary peers, the Minister for Constitutional Affairs, Geoff Hoon stated: After this agreed with a question from fellow Labour MP, Mark Fisher which stated:
Prime Minister of the Netherlands to English is "Second Chamber") will initiate coalition talks after general elections. These negotiations are concluded by means of a so-called "government agreement" ("regeerakoord"). The lower house will have a debate about this agreement and, if this agreement meets sufficient support, the leader of the party with the largest number of seats in the lower house will be instituted as "formator" of the cabinet. He or she usually appoints herself or himself Prime Minister. A minister from the smaller coalition party usually becomes Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands. If there is a third or fourth party in the coalition,