Starmer 'plans to make Sadiq Khan a Lord' with London Mayor 'to receive life peerage'

Sir Keir plans to appoint the Mayor of London to the House of Lords after May's local elections, according to reports. Labour faces major losses at the local elections based on current polling. Suggestions that Sir Sadiq could soon become a life peer come after the mayor was awarded a knighthood last January. A person familiar with the matter told the Financial Times that conversations had also taken place involving the PM offering Sir Sadiq a cabinet role. Such a move could form part of the a potential cabinet reset after the local elections. It is a move that would...