New peerages list in full: Sue Gray joined by Therese Coffey and controversial Tory columnist
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Downing Street announced a raft of new appointments to the House of Lords on Friday afternoon. Labour has named 30 new peers, including Sue Gray, the partygate investigator who went on to become Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff. Downing Street announced a raft of new appointments to the House of Lords on Friday afternoon, which also included former shadow cabinet minister Thangam Debbonaire and Liz Truss’s deputy prime minister Dame Therese Coffey.
Among the other Labour names on the list put forward by Sir Keir are former MPs Ms Debbonaire, Julie Elliott, Lyn Brown, Steve McCabe and Kevin Brennan, as well as former Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones. There are also six nominations from Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, they include Dame Therese as well as former housing minister Rachel Maclean.
There are also two nominations from the Liberal Democrats. Here is the full list of nominations:. Professor Wendy Alexander FRSE – Vice Chair of the British Council, former Member of the Scottish Parliament for Paisley North and previously Labour Leader in the Scottish Parliament.
Sir Brendan Barber – former General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress and former chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. Luciana Berger – former Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree and current Chair of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance.
Mary Bousted – formerly the Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), and education policy adviser. Kevin Brennan – former Member of Parliament for Cardiff West and former Minister of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
