Former PM Boris Johnson faced a backlash after awarding his ex-aide Charlotte Owen a life peerage when she was just 30 in a ...

Kemi Badenoch has handed a peerage to a so-called free speech champion who was once forced to quit an official post over a string of misogynistic and homophobic tweets. Toby Young, the founder of ...

Toby Young has been awarded a peerage, Downing Street has announced. The founder and director of the Free Speech Union will take his place in the House of Lords next year. He is also a prominent ...

A title then has to be agreed and legal documents called the writ of summons are issued by parliament, and a letters patent issued by the King to create a life peerage. They can then sit in the ...

The leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Sheffield City Council has said he was "elated" to be nominated for a life peerage in the House of Lords. Shaffaq Mohammed was one of two Liberal Democrats ...

Luciana Berger, who quit the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn amid concerns about antisemitism, before rejoining last February, was also awarded a peerage. There are also six nominations from ...

The fact that it has taken Britain until the cusp of 2025 to seriously move towards ending a system rooted in feudalism makes ...