Keir Starmer has nominated a raft of latest Labour friends.
Partygate investigator and the prime minister’s former chief of employees, Sue Grey, is among the many Labour figures set to be elevated to the Home of Lords.
Luciana Berger, the previous MP for Liverpool Wavertree who resigned from Labour in protest at Jeremy Corbyn’s management in 2019, is one other who has been granted a peerage by the prime minister. Berger rejoined the Labour Celebration in 2023.
The previous Change UK and Liberal Democrat politician is amongst thirty new life friends appointed by Starmer.
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Different former MPs appointed to the Lords embody Thangam Debbonaire, who served as shadow tradition secretary earlier than she misplaced her Bristol West seat on the normal election; Kevin Brennan, who served because the Labour MP for Cardiff West MP from 2001 to 2024; Lyn Brown, Labour MP for West Ham from 2005 to 2024; and Steve McCabe, former Labour MP for Birmingham Corridor Inexperienced and Birmingham Selly Oak, who served in parliament from 1997 to 2024.
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A full checklist of Keir Starmer’s nominations might be discovered under:
- Professor Wendy Alexander FRSE – Vice Chair of the British Council, former Member of the Scottish Parliament for Paisley North and beforehand Labour Chief within the Scottish Parliament.
- Sir Brendan Barber – former Normal 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 present Chair of the Maternal Psychological Well being Alliance.
- Mary Bousted – previously the Joint Normal Secretary of the Nationwide Schooling Union (NEU), and training coverage adviser.
- Kevin Brennan – former Member of Parliament for Cardiff West and former Minister of State on the Division for Enterprise, Innovation and Expertise and Parliamentary Below Secretary of State on the Division for Kids, Faculties and Households.
- Lyn Brown – former Member of Parliament for West Ham and former Shadow Minister.
- Dinah Caine OBE CBE – Chair of Camden STEAM, previously Chair of Goldsmiths College and CEO and Chair of Artistic Skillset.
- Kay Carberry CBE – former Assistant Normal Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC).
- Margaret Curran – former Member of Parliament for Glasgow East and previously Minister inside the Scottish Govt.
- Thangam Debbonaire – former Member of Parliament for Bristol West and former Shadow Secretary of State.
- Julie Elliott – former Member of Parliament for Sunderland Central and former Shadow Minister.
- David Evans – former Labour Celebration Regional Director, Assistant Normal Secretary and Normal Secretary of the Labour Celebration 2020-2024.
- Sue Grey – former Chief of Employees to Prime Minister and former Cupboard Workplace Second Everlasting Secretary.
- Theresa Griffin – former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England.
- Anji Hunter – Senior Advisor at Edelman, and former Head of Authorities Relations in Downing Avenue.
- Carwyn Jones – former Member of the Senedd (MS) for Bridgend and First Minister of Wales.
- Mike Katz – Nationwide Chair of Jewish Labour Motion and a former Camden Councillor.
- Gerard Lemos CMG CBE – Social Coverage knowledgeable and Chair of English Heritage, Chair of Nationwide Financial savings & Investments (NS&I), and Chair of London Institute of Banking and Finance.
- Alison Levitt KC – Grasp of the Bench of the Inside Temple. Beforehand Principal Authorized Advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions and a Circuit Choose specialising in severe crime, together with rape.
- Anne Longfield CBE – Campaigner for youngsters and previously served because the Kids’s Commissioner for England. Founder and Govt Chair of the Centre for Younger Lives.
- Deborah Mattinson – former Director of Technique to Sir Keir Starmer. Co-founder of BritainThinks.
- Steve McCabe – former Member of Parliament for Birmingham Corridor Inexperienced and Birmingham Selly Oak, and former Authorities Whip.
- Claude Moraes OBE – former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London and chair of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Dwelling Affairs Committee.
- Wendy Nichols – UNISON Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Convenor and Department Secretary and Labour Councillor.
- Simon Pitkeathley – Presently the Chief Govt of Camden City Limitless and Euston City, previously the Mayor of London’s ‘Champion for Small Enterprise’.
- Dame Anne Marie Rafferty DBE FRCN – Professor of nursing coverage and former President of the Royal Faculty of Nursing.
- Krish Raval OBE – Founding Director of Religion in Management.
- Marvin Rees OBE – former Mayor of Bristol and Head of Bristol Metropolis Council. Former journalist, voluntary sector supervisor and NHS public well being supervisor.
- Revd Dr Russell David Rook OBE – Associate on the Good Religion Partnership and Anglican priest.
- Phil Wilson – former Member of Parliament for Sedgefield, and former Opposition Assistant Whip.
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