Who has been given a peerage? Full list of people nominated to House of Lords | Politics News

Sir Keir Starmer has nominated 30 former Labour MPs, staff and union leaders to the House of Lords.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has nominated six people, while Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has put forward two.

The independent House of Lords Appointments Commission will vet the nominations before the prime minister recommends them to the King.

A title then has to be agreed and legal documents called the writ of summons are issued by parliament, and a letters patent issued by the King to create a life peerage. They can then sit in the House of Lords and vote.

Here is the full list:

Labour Party nominations

Professor Wendy Alexander – vice chair of the British Council, former MSP for Paisley North and previous Scottish Labour leader

Sir Brendan Barber – former general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and former chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.

Luciana Berger – former MP for Liverpool Wavertree and current chair of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance

Mary Bousted – former joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), and education policy adviser

Kevin Brennan – former MP for Cardiff West and former business minister

Lyn Brown – former MP for West Ham and former shadow Treasury minister

Dinah Caine – chair of Camden STEAM, former chair of Goldsmiths University, and CEO and chair of Creative Skillset

Kay Carberry CBE – former assistant general secretary of the TUC

Margaret Curran – former MP for Glasgow East and former minister in the Scottish Executive

Thangam Debbonaire – former MP for Bristol West and former shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport, and housing, and former shadow leader of the House of Commons

Julie Elliott – former MP for Sunderland Central and former shadow energy minister

David Evans – former Labour Party regional director, assistant general secretary and general secretary of the Labour Party from 2020-2024

Sue Gray – former chief of staff to Sir Keir Starmer and former Cabinet Office second permanent secretary

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Theresa Griffin – former MEP for North West England

Anji Hunter – senior advisor at Edelman, and former head of government relations in Downing Street

Carwyn Jones – former Member of the Senedd (MS) for Bridgend, and first minister of Wales

Mike Katz – national chair of Jewish Labour Movement and a former Camden councillor

Gerard Lemos – social policy expert and chair of English Heritage, chair of National Savings & Investments (NS&I), and chair of London Institute of Banking and Finance

Alison Levitt KC – master of the bench of the Inner Temple, previous principal legal advisor Sir Keir when he was director of public prosecutions and a circuit judge specialising in serious crime, including rape

Anne Longfield – campaigner for children and formerly served as the children’s commissioner for England. Founder and executive chair of the Centre for Young Lives

Deborah Mattinson – former director of strategy to Sir Keir and co-founder of BritainThinks

Steve McCabe – former MP for Birmingham Hall Green and Birmingham Selly Oak, and former government whip

Claude Moraes – former MEP for London and chair of the civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee

Wendy Nichols – UNISON Yorkshire and Humberside regional convenor and branch secretary and Labour councillor

Simon Pitkeathley – chief executive of Camden Town Unlimited and Euston Town, formerly the Mayor of London’s champion for small business

Dame Anne Marie Rafferty – professor of nursing policy and former president of the Royal College of Nursing

Krish Raval – founding director of Faith in Leadership

Marvin Rees – former Mayor of Bristol and head of Bristol City Council. Former journalist, voluntary sector manager and NHS public health manager

Revd Dr Russell David Rook – partner at the Good Faith Partnership and Anglican priest

Phil Wilson – former MP for Sedgefield, and former opposition assistant whip

Conservative nominations:

Nigel Biggar – chair of the Free Speech Union, regius professor emeritus of moral theology at the University of Oxford and Anglican priest.

Joanne Cash – co-founder of Parent Gym and barrister serving as the Southeastern Circuit Junior and a member of the Bar Human Rights Committee

Dame Therese Coffey – former deputy prime minister and former MP for Suffolk Coastal

Roger Evans – former deputy mayor of London and former member of the London Assembly for Havering and Redbridge

Rachel Maclean – former MP for Redditch and former housing and planning minister

Toby Young – founder and director of the Free Speech Union, and associate editor of The Spectator

Liberal Democrat nominations:

Shaffaq Mohammed – former Sheffield City councillor and chair of the Liberal Democrat carers commission

Dr Mark Pack – former president of the Liberal Democrats