THE Tory chairman has been given a knighthood and former DUP leader Arlene Foster has been gifted a peerage in the latest honours list.
The King has approved 26 new peerages, following nominations submitted by former prime minister Boris Johnson.
Alongside Jake Berry and Foster, those receiving honours include Sir Nicholas Soames – the grandson of Winston Churchill and a former Tory MP who told SNP Westminster leader to “go back to Skye” and shouted “woof woof” at ex-SNP representative Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh as she spoke in the House of Commons. Ex deputy Labour leader Tom Watson is also on the list.
Paul Dacre, the editor-in-chief of DMG Media which publishes the Daily Mail and Metro newspapers, was not on the list despite previously being tipped to receive the honour.
There were eight nominations from Labour leader Keir Starmer, including TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady and ex-MP Ruth Smeeth.
The full list is as follows:
Knighthoods
- Jake Berry, Conservative Party chairman and MP for Rossendale and Darwen
- John Whittingdale, MP for Maldon, former culture secretary
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael
- James Duddridge, MP for Rochford and Southend East
Peerage nominations from the former Leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party
- Angie Bray – Former MP for Ealing Central and Acton
- Graham Evans – Former MP for Weaver Vale
- Sir Michael Hintze – Businessman, founder of the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation
- Stewart Jackson – Former MP for Peterborough, and special adviser at the Department for Exiting the European Union
- Kate Lampard CBE – Chair of GambleAware and a lead Non-Executive Director of the Department for Health and Social Care
- Dr Sheila Lawlor – Founder at Politeia
- Dr Ruth Lea CBE - Economist, former civil servant
- Dr Dambisa Moyo – economist and author
- Teresa O’Neill OBE - Leader of the Council in the London Borough of Bexley.
- Professor Andrew Roberts – historian and journalist; founder-president of the Cliveden Literary Festival.
- Dr Cleveland Anthony Sewell CBE – formerly Chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities
- Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Soames – former MP Mid Sussex
- Sir Hugo Swire – former MP for East Devon, and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Nominations from the leader of the Labour Party
- Sonny Leong CBE – Co-Founder and co-chair of SME4Labour
- Frances O’Grady – general secretary of the Trades Union Congress of the UK
- David Prentis – President of Public Services International and former secretary general of Unison
- Kuldip Singh Sahota – Labour councillor for Malinslee & Dawley Bank
- Ruth Smeeth – Former MP for Stoke-on-Trent North
- Sharon Taylor OBE – Labour leader of Stevenage Borough Council
- Dr Fiona Twycross – deputy mayor of London for Fire and Resilience
- Thomas Watson – formerly deputy leader of the Labour Party
Nominations from the leader of the DUP
- Peter Weir – former minister for education in the Northern Ireland Executive
Nominations for non-affiliated peerages
- Dame Arlene Foster – former first minister of Northern Ireland
- Professor Guglielmo Verdirame QC - barrister and professor of international law at King’s College London
Nominations for crossbench peerages
- Sir Peter Hendy – chair of Network Rail
- Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach – Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the Western Balkans and former chief of defence staff
