Overview
- No 10 listed 25 Labour nominees to the House of Lords, including Iceland executive chair Richard Walker, former No 10 communications chief Matthew Doyle and ex–Rachel Reeves aide Katie Martin.
- The additions bring Keir Starmer’s total peerages since taking office to 62, following 30 announced last December and seven for ministerial roles.
- Despite the new appointments, the Conservatives remain the largest party in the upper chamber with 282 peers.
- Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch nominated Sharron Davies, Sir John Redwood and Simon Heffer, the Liberal Democrats put forward five nominees, and crossbencher the Earl of Kinnoull was proposed for a life peerage.
- Labour says the intake is to rebalance a chamber that has pushed back on renters’ and workers’ rights bills, as its legislation to remove hereditary peers proceeds through late-stage parliamentary ping‑pong.