@sbisson
Do you have to be a "lord" to be Prisons Minister?
@davebarnes @sbisson I think you have to be either an MP or a Lord. So if you want to make someone a minister in the UK who is not already in politics, you have to lordify them first. (This happened relatively recently with Alan Sugar (our Apprentice host) and Digby Jones (business dick).
@davebarnes @sbisson this is for any ministerial position, nothing special about a prisons one