Toby Young, the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, is among those who have been nominated as a Conservative life peer by the Tory leader.

The six new Tory peers who will enter the House of Lords are “true radicals, the smart and the very brave”, Kemi Badenoch has said.

Toby Young, the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, is among those who have been nominated as a Conservative life peer by the Tory leader.

Mrs Badenoch’s nominations also include Liz Truss’s deputy prime minister Dame Therese Coffey, as well as former housing minister Rachel Maclean, Oxford professor Nigel Biggar, former deputy mayor of London Roger Evans and Joanne Cash, a barrister and co-founder of Parent Gym.

Sue Gray, the partygate investigator who went on to become Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, was named among 30 new Labour peers.

Downing Street announced a raft of new nominations to the House of Lords on Friday afternoon, which also included former shadow cabinet minister Thangam Debbonaire.

Former MP Luciana Berger, who resigned from Labour in 2019 over the antisemitism scandal before rejoining in 2023, will also sit on the Labour Lords........

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