A London-based professional who chairs the Labor Party’s expatriate group, Labor Indians, was on Friday named by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as one of his 30 choices for new political peers in the House of Lords. Had to be approved by King Charles III.
Krish Rawal, awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2018 for services to leadership education and inter-faith reconciliation, is the Founder-Director of Faith in Leadership – an Oxford University-based organization working towards promoting inter-faith relations. Used to be.
She is now expected to join the Labor bench as a life peer in the upper house of the UK Parliament, alongside Starmer’s former chief of staff Sue Gray and Thangam Debonair, a former Labor shadow minister of Sri Lankan heritage.
“The King is delighted to mark his intention to honor the peerage with a lifetime peerage of the United Kingdom,” said a Downing Street statement announcing the nomination this week.
An independent House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC) examines these nominations, before the Prime Minister can formally recommend them to the King.
This was followed by the legal document, or writ of summons, issued by Parliament and a letters patent issued by the monarch to create a life peer for new members to be able to take their seats and vote in the House of Lords. Is done.
The Labor Party has nominated 30 peers, in what is seen as an attempt to balance the numbers in the Lords, where the Tories have the largest number of peers.
Once the new nominations are approved, which include six choices from opposition Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch and two choices from the Liberal Democrats, the governing Labor Party is expected to have 217 peers, the Tories 279 and the Lib Dems 80. More than 180 crossbench colleagues are also part of it. The Lords are unaffiliated with any party, meaning that no party has an absolute majority in the upper house of Parliament.
While Badenoch has named former Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey among her choices, the Lib Dems have included British Pakistani councilor Shafaq Mohammed in their list. Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s nomination for the House of Lords is expected to take place at a later date, according to reports.
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