PM Keir Starmer’s closing honours listing additionally contains campaigners, army leaders and senior civil servants.
Printed On 16 Jul 2026
Sadiq Khan and 25 others will now be capable to sit within the Home of Lords, the place they’ll scrutinise, revise and vote on United Kingdom laws as life friends.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has named the mayor of London as one in all 26 folks to be given seats within the Home of Lords, in one in all his closing acts as prime minister.
In a launch revealed on Thursday, the UK authorities introduced Khan’s appointment to the Home of Lords alongside senior figures from politics, philanthropy, social motion, the army and enterprise.
Sadiq Khan, a former Labour MP for Tooting, is midway by way of his third time period as London mayor, having first been elected in 2016.
Khan’s appointment to the Home of Lords is among the many closing selections taken by Starmer earlier than Andy Burnham is anticipated to succeed him as Labour chief on Friday and as UK prime minister on Monday, July 20.
Different nominations
Outgoing prime ministers historically advocate political peerages, permitting nominees to take a seat for all times within the Home of Lords.
Of the 26 nominees, simply 16 have been nominated by Labour, 5 by the Liberal Democrats, three by the Conservatives and two are crossbench friends, that means they don’t have any get together affiliation.
Amongst Labour’s nominees are Parvais Jabbar and Saul Lehrfreund, human rights campaigners who cofounded the Loss of life Penalty Undertaking, and Cathy Ashley, a households’ rights campaigner and former head of the Holocaust Memorial Day Belief.
Former Chief of the Normal Employees of the British Military Normal Sir Patrick Sanders was amongst these nominated by the Conservatives.
Economist Tim Leunig, chief economist on the British social innovation basis Nesta, was nominated by the Liberal Democrats.
One of many two crossbench friends nominated was former senior choose Sir Brian Leveson, who led the 2011 Leveson Inquiry into the conduct of the British press following the phone-hacking scandal.
Starmer didn’t award any nominations to right-wing Reform UK, which now has seven MPs within the Home of Commons following Nigel Farage’s resignation earlier this month. Farage, who stays the get together’s chief, mentioned: “As soon as once more, there’s nothing for Reform and we get an much more unrepresentative higher home.”
Earlier than the most recent appointments, the Conservatives held 246 seats within the Home of Lords, in contrast with Labour’s 216, leaving the opposition with a numerical benefit within the higher chamber.
