Sue Gray, the partygate investigator who went on to become Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, has been named among 30 new Labour peers.
Downing Street announced a raft of new appointments to the House of Lords on Friday afternoon, which also included former shadow cabinet minister Thangam Debbonaire and Liz Truss’s deputy prime minister Dame Therese Coffey.
Ms Gray came to prominence in 2022 with the report into Downing Street parties, and then became Sir Keir’s chief of staff in opposition before following him into Number 10.
She quit the role in October after a series of internal rows.
Among the other Labour names on the list put forward by Sir Keir are former MPs Ms Debbonaire, Julie Elliott, Lyn Brown, Steve McCabe and Kevin Brennan, as well as former Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones.
There are also six nominations from Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, they include Dame Therese as well as former housing minister Rachel Maclean.
There are also two nominations from the Liberal Democrats.
The Conservatives have the most peers. Before the new awards, the Tories had 273, while Labour had only 187.
