Dissolution honours list revealed

 Former prime minister Theresa May has been given a life peerage in the dissolution honours list released by prime minister Rishi Sunak. The honours, which came out in the hour before polls closed in the General Election, also featured Mr Sunak's right-hand man Liam Booth-Smith, who was given a peerage.

Booth-Smith had been Mr Sunak’s chief of staff in Downing Street. Ex-Cabinet minister Chris Grayling, former chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee Sir Graham Brady and Mrs May will also take seats in the House of Lords.

Former deputy speaker Dame Eleanor Laing and ex-MP Craig Mackinlay, who has battled sepsis which cost him his hands and feet, have also been given peerages. Former Cop26 president and Cabinet minister Sir Alok Sharma has also been made a peer.

Labour veterans Dame Margaret Beckett, Harriet Harman and Dame Margaret Hodge will also take seats in the House of Lords. Sir Keir Starmer’s nominations in the dissolution honours include former Parliamentary Labour party chairman John Cryer.

There are also peerages for former minister Kevan Jones, who has played a prominent role in campaigning for justice for sub-postmasters caught up in the Horizon scandal, former deputy speaker Dame Rosie Winterton and veteran ex-whip John Spellar.

Nominations from the Leader of the Conservative Party:-

The Rt Hon Sir Graham Stuart Brady PC b 20 May 1967 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Altrincham and Sale West, and Chairman of the 1922 Committee.

The Rt Hon Christopher Stephen Grayling PC b 1 Apr 1962 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Epsom and Ewell, and former Secretary of State for Transport, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice and Leader of the House of Commons.

The Rt Hon Dame Eleanor Laing DBE PC b 1 Feb 1958 div - Lately Member of Parliament for Epping Forest, lately Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons.

Craig Mackinley JP b 7 Oct 1966 m - Lately Member of Parliament for South Thanet.

The Rt Hon Theresa Mary May PC b 1 Oct 1956 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Maidenhead, former Prime Minister and Home Secretary.

The Rt Hon Sir Alok Kumar Sharma KCMG PC b 7 Sep 1967 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Reading West and former Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Secretary of State for International Development and President for COP26.

Liam Booth-Smith b 1987 m - Lately No10 Downing Street Chief of Staff.

Nominations from the Leader of the Labour Party

The Rt Hon Dame Margaret Mary Beckett GBE PC b 15 Jan 1943 w - Former Foreign Secretary and former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

John Robert Cryer b 11 Apr 1964 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Leyton and Wanstead.

The Rt Hon Harriet Ruth Harman KC PC b 30 Jul 1950 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Camberwell and Peckham, and formerly Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

The Rt Hon Dame Margaret Eve Hodge DBE PC b 8 Sep 1944 w - Lately Member of Parliament for Barking and former Minister of State for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

The Rt Hon Kevan David Jones PC b 25 Apr 1964  - Lately Member of Parliament for North Durham and former Minister for Veterans at the Ministry of Defence.

Barbara Mary Keeley b 26 Mar 1952 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Worsley and Eccles South and formerly Shadow Minister for Music and Tourism.

The Rt Hon John Francis Spellar PC b 5 Aug 1947 w - Lately Member of Parliament for Warley and formerly Comptroller of the Household in the Whips’ Office.

The Rt Hon Dame Rosie [Rosalie] Winterton DBE PC b 10 Aug 1958  - Lately Member of Parliament for Doncaster Central and former Deputy Speakers in the House of Commons.

Nominations from the Liberal Democrat Party

Caroline Valerie Pidgeon MBE b 29 Sep 1972 m - Lately Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly.

Nominations from the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)

Thomas Elliott MLA b 11 Dec 1963 - Member of the Legislative Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone and former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.

Nominations for Crossbench Peerages

Minette Bridget Batters b 28 May 1967 div - Former President of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales.

Dr Hilary Dawn Cass OBE FRCN FRCGP b 19 Feb 1958 - Former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

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