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Just when you thought you couldn’t dislike Sir Keir Starmer any more, he has gone and awarded Sir Sadiq Khan a peerage. The London Mayor is among 26 new members of the House of Lords announced by No. 10 as the Prime Minister prepares to leave the building.
The move paves the way for Sir Sadiq to – deep breaths – join Andy Burnham’s cabinet, although his team insists he remains focused on serving out the remainder of his mayoral term. Other Labour gongs have been bestowed on the broadcaster and former ‘BBC Director of Creative Diversity’ June Sarpong and former Unison general secretary Christina McAnea. Former Labour MP Kitty Ussher, who quit as a Treasury minister after The Telegraph revealed she had avoided £17,000 in Capital Gains Tax by temporarily changing her main residence, was also rewarded.
The Tories were permitted to nominate three new peers, including the former army chief General Sir Patrick Sanders and David Ross, the co-founder of Carphone Warehouse. There will also be five new Liberal Democrat peers, while Reform was awarded precisely none.
The full list of nominations can be read below:
