Submitted on Sunday 18th October 2020
Rejected on Thursday 26th November 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: honours (see below for details)
Former Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, should be given a life peerage.
To give a life peerage to John Sentamu the former Archbishop of York.
While there is no automatic right for archbishops to be given a life peerage, his predecessor David Hope and the former archbishops of Canterbury Rowan Williams and George Carey were all made life peers when they stepped down.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can't accept petitions about appointments, which includes calling for people to be an honour such as a peerage.
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