Here is the latest nomination in our series highlighting people David Cameron should consider appointing to the House of Lords.
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No. 31: Patience Wheatcroft
Laura Sandys writes:
"I do not know of anyone who would be better suited to the House of Lords than Patience Wheatcroft.
"Who better could we have in the Lords than someone who has been an editor of a national newspaper [the Sunday Telegraph], held the Government to account through her columns, been the bain of Gordon Brown’s life when business editor of the Times and then called in to help clean up the mess left by Ken Livingstone at City Hall. Boris recently described her as a 'pit-bull of probity'.
"With a journalistic nose for knowing what just doesn’t sound true, for her business experience both as a journalist and as a business woman, with her extensive experience of the voluntary sector – and having been an active Conservative all her life, not least as the wife of a former Conservative councillor – what better qualifications could we want?
"I would vote for Baroness Wheatcroft of Probity!"
> Previous nomination: Patrick Nicholls