Professional-Brexit Tories who’ve backed Boris Johnson might be appointed to the Home of Lords inside days to cut back the probabilities of Tory laws being defeated.
The Telegraph can reveal the complete record of political peerages which is about to be introduced by Downing Road, topic to final minute adjustments.
There are 15 Conservatives on the present slate to turn out to be new friends, greater than all different political events mixed. Labor ought to solely get eight new lords.
Paul Dacre, the previous editor of the Every day Mail, is ready to turn out to be a Tory peer. He had been lined up by Mr Johnson for chairman of media regulator Ofcom, however the transfer failed.
Sir Michael Hintze, the Tory businessman and donor, can be set to be excessive. He gave £4.7million in donations, in accordance with the Electoral Fee database.
Andrew Roberts, the historian who wrote positively about Mr Johnsonand Tony Sewell, who investigated ethnic disparities for prime minister, will get peerages.
There are additionally 5 former Tory MPs on the record – Stewart Jackson, Sir Hugo Swire, Angie Bray, Graham Evans and Sir Nicholas Soames.
Mr Jackson was a minister within the Brexit division and later served as chief of employees to David Davis, the previous Brexit secretary.
Sir Nicholas, the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, is a notable exception in a crowded record of supporters of leaving the European Union. He was a fierce critic and was stripped of the Tory whip by Mr Johnson due to it.
Different names on the record embody outstanding conservative thinkers corresponding to Sheila Lawlor, the director of Politeia, and Ruth Lea, the economist and former civil servant.
Kate Lampard, the chair of GambleAware, Dambisa Moyo, the economist and creator, and Teresa O’Neill, Conservative chief of Bexley Council, are additionally set to turn out to be Lords.
Dominic Johnson, the investor who arrange Somerset Capital Administration with Jacob Rees-Mogg, the enterprise secretary, will get a peerage to turn out to be commerce minister.
