Starmer Nominates 26 New Peers Including Sadiq Khan as Burnham Prepares to Take Over
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 16
Starmer Nominates 26 New Peers Including Sadiq Khan as Burnham Prepares to Take Over
3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 16
Summary
Sadiq Khan was named among 26 new House of Lords nominees in one of Keir Starmer’s final acts before leaving office on Monday, with 16 Labour picks including June Sarpong and Christina McAnea.
The list was described as a cross-party set of political peerages prepared before Starmer announced his resignation, not a traditional resignation honours slate.
Five Liberal Democrats, three Conservatives and two crossbenchers were also nominated, including former cabinet secretary Chris Wormald and retired senior judge Brian Leveson.
Reform UK received no peerages, prompting Nigel Farage to call the appointments “the uniparty writ large” and the upper chamber even more unrepresentative.
The nominations land awkwardly against Labour’s past pledge to replace the Lords and Andy Burnham’s call for a full overhaul of an unelected second chamber.