Here is the latest nomination in our series highlighting people David Cameron should consider appointing to the House of Lords.
If you would like to nominate someone, please email Jonathan Isaby with your suggestion, ideally including key arguments for the nomination as well as biographical information. The sources of nominations will be treated confidentially where requested.
No. 19: Sir Kenneth Bloomfield
A reader from Cambridgeshire writes:
"If David Cameron is keen to see more Conservatives - or at least Conservative-minded people - from Northern Ireland in Parliament, even in the Lords, then he should not overlook Sir Kenneth Bloomfield.
"It is surprising that he is not in the Lords already: a former Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Sir Ken has been intimately involved in the politics of the province since the 1960s, and he has also served as Victims Commissioner and as a Governor of the BBC.
"Although now in his seventies, Sir Ken has recently become one of the greatest champions of the grammar school system in Northern Ireland, assuming the role of one-man opposition to the excesses of the Executive.
"That might work against him in the eyes of the present Conservative leadership, and Sir Ken would probably not regard himself as a Tory, but he stands for good common sense - something which all Conservatives should appreciate."
As a former senior civil servant, it is indeed unlikely that Sir Kenneth would take the Conservative whip, but there have always been Cross-benchers sympathetic to a Conservative worldview and as such we are happy to include such individuals in this series.
Jonathan Isaby
> Yesterday's nomination: Sir Desmond de Silva QC