Overview

• Sue Gray, known for her Partygate investigation and former role as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, has been appointed as a Labour peer alongside 29 others.
• The appointments aim to increase Labour’s influence in the House of Lords, though the party remains short of a majority in the 800-member chamber.
• Other new Labour peers include former MPs Thangam Debbonaire, Kevin Brennan, and Lyn Brown, as well as prominent party figures like Anji Hunter and Brendan Barber.
• The Conservative Party gained six new peers, including journalist Toby Young and former ministers Thérèse Coffey and Rachel Maclean, while the Liberal Democrats added two members.
• Labour continues to push for reforms to the House of Lords, including the removal of hereditary peers, as part of its broader agenda for modernizing the chamber.