The government has appointed 30 new Labour peers, including a string of ex-MPs and Sir Keir Starmer loyalists. The prime minister’s former chief of staff Sue Gray has also been handed a seat in the House of Lords, confirming reports earlier in the week. It comes only two months after she left her role as the prime minister’s chief of staff, amid internal rows over her influence. The Conservatives appointed six new peers, including former deputy prime minister Therese Coffey and Toby Young, the associate editor of The Spectator and son of former Labour peer Lord Michael Young. The Lib Dems have appointed two peers. The list of new peers contains 18 men and 20 women. A series of Labour MPs who lost their seats or stood down at the last election will now join the House of Lords, including Thangam Debbonaire, Julie Elliot, Lyn Brown and Steve McCabe. Luciana Berger and Phil Wilson, two Labour MPs who lost their seat at the 2019 election, are to become peers, as is Margaret Curran who lost her Glasgow East seat in 2015.
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