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Taking the ermine

Evgeny Lebedev The Russian

proprietor of The Independent

and Evening Standard has long

been close to Mr Johnson. The

son of a former KGB agent, he

is a consummate

networker and

socialite.

Jo Johnson The

prime minister’s

younger brother

rejoins the Tory

fray after his

resignation from

government last

September. The

former science

minister, a

Remainer,

admitted that he

found it impossible to

reconcile his

obligations to his family

and party with his

conscience.

Ruth Davidson

The driving force behind

the revival of the Scottish

Conservatives, Ms

Davidson clashed with Mr

Johnson over Brexit and

resigned last summer.

Sir Ian Botham

The England cricket

legend, known for his

brilliance on the pitch and

frequent misdemeanours off it,

has been reborn in middle age

as a charity fundraiser and

Brexit campaigner and will sit as

a crossbencher.

Sir Eddie Lister Mr Johnson’s

strategic adviser has been at his

side both as London mayor and

prime minister. A former leader

of Wandsworth council, his

elevation to the Lords is a

sweetener for his

marginalisation at the hands of

Dominic Cummings.

Philip Hammond One of Mr

Johnson’s most persistent critics

in government, the former

chairman of the

Conservative

Party and

cabinet minister

Aamer Sarfraz,

Conservative

Party treasurer

Ed Vaizey, former

culture minister

Lorraine Fullbrook,

former MP for South Ribble

Daniel Moylan, former mayor of

Kensington and Chelsea

Andrew Sharpe, chairman of

the National Conservative

Convention

Michael Spencer, chairman of

IPGL Holdings and Tory donor

Veronica Wadley, former editor

of the Evening Standard.

James Wharton, former

international development

minister

Dame Helena Morrissey, chief

executive of Newton Investment

Management

Neil Mendoza, provost of Oriel

College, Oxford

LABOUR

Susan Hayman, former MP for

Workington

Prem Sikka, professor of

accounting at the University of

Sheffield

Brinley Davies, director of

Union Pension Services Ltd

NON-AFFILIATED

Frank Field, former welfare

minister

Kate Hoey, former MP for

Vauxhall

John Woodcock, special envoy

for countering violent extremism

and former Labour MP

Charles Moore, former editor of

The Daily Telegraph and

Spectator. Biographer of

Margaret Thatcher

CROSSBENCH PEERS

Dame Louise Casey, former

civil servant

Dame Nemat (Minouche)

Shafik, director of the London

School of Economics and

Political Science

vote to leave the

EU.

Katy Clark One

of the few

survivors of

Labour’s original

list of nominations,

the former MP and

close aide to Jeremy

Corbyn is ennobled despite

repeatedly failing to win

selection as a parliamentary

candidate.

Tony Woodley The first general

secretary of the Unite trade

union denied in 2018 that he

had designs on a peerage but

he has accepted Mr Corbyn’s

nomination.

NOTABLE OMISSIONS

The three biggest names on Mr

Corbyn’s initial list of

nominations were all rejected by

the House of Lords appointment

commission.

John Bercow, the former

Commons Speaker, Tom

Watson, Mr Corbyn’s deputy,

and Karie Murphy, his chief of

staff, failed to make the cut.

On the government benches,

Johnny Leavesley and Peter

Cruddas, two other Tory donors,

were also overlooked. They are

said to be set for peerages in

the autumn. Mr Johnson is said

to be frustrated that the Lords

authorities blocked nominations

for his financial supporters.

NEW PEERS

CONSERVATIVE

Sir Henry

Bellingham,

former Foreign

Office minister

Nick Herbert,

former policing

minister

Mark Lancaster,

former defence

minister

Sir Patrick

McLoughlin,

former

chancellor returns to parliament

as a Conservative, despite losing

the whip after voting to block a

no-deal Brexit last September.

Ken Clarke The cabinet

veteran’s four decades as a

Conservative MP and minister

came to an inauspicious end

after he was expelled alongside

Mr Hammond and 19 other

no-deal rebels.

Nigel Dodds The former

Westminster leader of the

Democratic Unionist Party, who

found themselves abandoned

by Mr Johnson after he reneged

on his promise not to pursue a

Brexit deal that imposed a

border in the Irish Sea, is

rewarded after losing his seat to

Sinn Fein in December.

Claire Fox Perhaps the first

revolutionary communist to join

the House of Lords, Ms Fox, a

former Brexit Party MEP, will sit

as a non-affiliated peer. She has

faced criticism for her time as

co-publisher of Living Marxism,

a magazine that denied the

Bosnian genocide and defended

the Provisional IRA.

Ian Austin Once one of Labour’s

most tribal figures, the former

minister and close friend of

Gordon Brown emerged as

Jeremy Corbyn’s most

aggressive backbench critic.

After quitting the party over

antisemitism in February last

year he urged voters to support

Mr Johnson in the election.

Gisela Stuart The

German-born former

Labour MP was the first

televised gain of Tony

Blair’s 1997 landslide but

is far better known for

her chairmanship of

Vote Leave, and is

credited by the

prime minister

as key

to the 2016

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Jo Johnson, Ken Clarke,

Kate Hoey and

Ruth Davidson