Labour appoints 30 new peers including Sue Gray

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.

Last month, Gray had decided not to take up a post as the prime minister’s envoy to the nations and regions that she was offered after departing as Sir Keir’s chief of staff.

Gray maintains it was her decision to leave the job, but her exit came following weeks of negative headlines and briefings against her, including a row over her salary.

She was replaced by Morgan McSweeney, with whom she had reportedly clashed in his previous role as Sir Keir’s chief political adviser.

Ms Gray, who became a household name after leading the government’s internal inquiry into the Partygate scandal, left the civil service to become a senior adviser to Sir Keir last year.