Overview
- No 10 published a list naming 25 new Labour life peers, including Iceland chair Richard Walker and former Downing Street communications chief Matthew Doyle.
- Other Labour nominees include Katie Martin, Carol Linforth, and Sir Michael Barber, alongside figures from local government, academia, business, and public service.
- Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch nominated Sharron Davies, historian Simon Heffer, and former cabinet minister Sir John Redwood for peerages.
- The Liberal Democrats put forward five nominees including former MP Sarah Teather, with hereditary peers Lord Addington and Earl Russell nominated for life peerages, and Crossbench Earl of Kinnoull also nominated for a life peerage.
- The government has faced firm resistance in the Lords over its workers’ rights plans, Labour says the appointments aim to unblock legislation, and the Mirror counts 62 peerages by Starmer since taking office.