The Independent’s Evgeny Lebedev awarded peerage by PM

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Hoey and Stuart were among five former Labour MPs awarded non-affiliated peerages, also including Frank Field, Ian Austin and John Woodcock, who all departed the party after rows with former leader Jeremy Corbyn. Others to get nominations include former Conservative leader in Scotland Ruth Davidson, DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds, Charles Moore, the former Daily Telegraph editor and biographer of Margaret Thatcher, and homelessness tsar Louise Casey. Also receiving life peerages were former Tory MPs Sir Patrick McLoughlin, Ed Vaizey, James Wharton, Sir Henry Bellingham, Nick Herbert, Mark Lancaster and Lorraine Fullbrook, along with the chair of the National Conservative Convention Andrew Sharpe. Businesswoman Helena Morrissey, who has led efforts to get more women into the boardroom, was also made a peer, along with ex-Evening Standard editor Veronica Wadley, LSE director Nemat Shafik, the chair of Urban Design London Daniel Moylan and Neil Mendoza, the provost of Oriel College Oxford, who has been appointed by government to lead the cultural sector’s recovery from coronavirus.