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Sir Keir awards Sue Gray a peerage

Sue Gray (Getty images)

Well, well, well. The political peerages list is finally here and the nominations from Sir Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Sir Ed Davey have been formally approved by King Charles III. 

The list includes some rather interesting names – including the Spectator’s Toby Young, Liz Truss’s former deputy prime minister Thérèse Coffey and despite her rather, er, eventful year, Starmer’s former chief of staff Sue Gray. 

See the full list below…

Nominations from the leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer:

  1. 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.
  2. Sir Brendan Barber – former General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress and former chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
  3. Luciana Berger – former Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree and current Chair of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance.
  4. Mary Bousted – formerly the Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), and education policy adviser.
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