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Lord McFall of Alcuith Has Been Confirmed As New Lord Speaker John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith PC, has been elected as the new Lord Speaker (Alamy) 21 April Lord McFall of Alcuith has been elected as the new Lord Speaker, following Lord Fowler’s early resignation announced in February 2021. McFall, a Labour and Co-operative MP in Dunbartonshire from 1987 to 2010, first joined the House of Lords in 2010. He has served as Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords since 2016, overseeing work to restructure Lords Select Committees and to develop new procedures for hybrid working during ...

Heading for the Woolsack? Labour peer McFall as Senior Deputy Speaker could be in pole position to succeed Lord Fowler in top job SCOTTISH peer Lord McFall of Alcuith is being tipped as a leading contender to become the next Speaker of the House of Lords. This week, the current incumbent, Lord Fowler, 83, the former Conservative Health Secretary, who has served in the UK Parliament for more than 50 years as an MP and peer, announced he had decided to stand down to campaign on HIV/Aids and LGBT rights. Until 2006, the role of presiding officer in the Lords was undertaken by the Lord Chan...