Life peerage for Sir Ian Blair
Former Commissioner Sir Ian Blair will become a cross-bencher in the House of Lords, it has been announced, as 56 individuals on the dissolution honours list were revealed today (May 28).
Former Commissioner Sir Ian Blair will become a cross-bencher in the House of Lords, it has been announced, as 56 individuals on the dissolution honours list were revealed today (May 28).
Sir Ian resigned from his post in October 2008 after conflict with Mayor of London Boris Johnson and inadvertently revealing confidential documents to press photographers.
Others on the list include: former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott; key adviser to Gordon Brown, Sue Nye; Helen Newlove, who has campaigned against drink-related violence since her husband Garry was beaten to death by a gang in Warrington in 2007; former director of public prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald; the UK`s first black Cabinet minister, Paul Boateng, who later served as High Commissioner to South Africa, is made a working peer on the Labour benches; former first minister of Northern Ireland Ian Paisley; and childrens TV presenter Floella Benjamin.