Editing Andrew Lloyd Webber (section)

==Politics==
Lloyd Webber was made a [[life peer]] in 1997 as ''Baron Lloyd-Webber, of [[Sydmonton]], in the county of [[Hampshire]]'', sitting for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]].<ref name="gaz"/> By the end of 2015, he had voted only 33 times in the [[House of Lords]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?id=uk.org.publicwhip/member/100381&showall=yes|title=Voting Record – Lord Lloyd-Webber (13305) — The Public Whip|website=publicwhip.org.uk}}</ref> Politically, Lloyd Webber has supported the Conservatives, allowing his song "[[Take That Look Off Your Face]]" to be used on a party promotional film seen by an estimated one million people before the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=121755|date=13 April 2005|title='Take that look off your face', Mr Blair told |publisher=Conservative Party|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704203511/http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=121755|archive-date=4 July 2007}}</ref> In August 2014, Lloyd Webber was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ''[[The Guardian]]'' opposing [[Scottish independence]] in the run-up to September's [[2014 Scottish independence referendum|referendum on that issue]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/celebrities-open-letter-scotland-independence-full-text |title=Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories |work=The Guardian|date=7 August 2014 |access-date=26 August 2014}}</ref>

In October 2015, Lloyd Webber was involved in a contentious House of Lords vote over proposed cuts to [[tax credit]]s, voting with the Government in favour of the plan. Lloyd Webber was denounced by his critics because he flew in from abroad on his personal plane to vote, when his voting record was scant.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Deacon|first1=Michael|title=George Osborne, tax credits... and the quiet revenge of the Lords|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/11955616/George-Osborne-tax-credits...-and-the-quiet-revenge-of-the-Lords.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/11955616/George-Osborne-tax-credits...-and-the-quiet-revenge-of-the-Lords.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|website=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=27 October 2015|date=26 October 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Troup Buchanan|first1=Rose|title='Desperate' Tories flew in peer Andrew Lloyd Webber from New York to prop up government vote on tax credits|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tax-credits-andrew-lloyd-webber-flown-in-from-new-york-in-attempt-to-salvage-tory-proposal-a6710301.html|website=The Independent|access-date=28 October 2015|date=27 October 2015}}</ref> In October 2017, Lloyd Webber retired from the [[House of Lords]], stating that his busy schedule was incompatible with the demands of Parliament considering the upcoming crucial [[Brexit]] legislation.<ref name=guardian-20171016>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/oct/16/andrew-lloyd-webber-quits-as-conservative-peer |title=Andrew Lloyd Webber quits as Conservative peer |last=Elgot |first=Jessica |newspaper=The Guardian |date=16 October 2017 |access-date=17 October 2017}}</ref>

In July 2021, he told ''[[Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain]]'' that he would never vote for the Conservatives again, due to their handling of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] and [[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the performing arts|poor treatment of the arts sector during that time]].<ref name="GMB21">{{cite tweet |user=GMB |number=1418439372031119363 |title=Andrew Lloyd Webber emotionally tells @PipTomson he will never vote Conservative again after the Impresario had to postpone the opening of his new show Cinderella because of self-isolation rules.}}</ref>

[[File:Coat of arms of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, KG.png|thumb|Lloyd-Webber's coat of arms]]