Labour’s negative-headline-grabbing London mayor, Sadiq Khan, is set to be made a Lord, likely so that he can be brought in as a member of the government—as if it couldn’t become any less popular!
Financial Times journalist Lucy Fisher said embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer was hoping to show his lower ranks that he “wants to make use of all talent in [the] party,” although this does little to explain the possible promotion of Khan.
Fisher added that the move was intended to “pacify” a “key critic” following Starmer’s recent fallout with another senior Labour figure, Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham. This is illustrative of the establishment’s ruining of the House of Lords, once one of the nation’s most important political institutions and now stuffed full with chums of the elite and potential critics wooed into submission.
Khan’s peerage offer will reportedly be made by the PM after local elections in May, widely expected to be a disaster for Labour. Advance reports come just after the mayor said—and, as such, seemingly endorse his view that—his party should “fight the next general election with a clear manifesto commitment: A vote for Labour means we would rejoin the European Union.”
There has been an expectedly large and negative response to the news on social media. The Conservative Woman Editor Kathy Gyngell jibed, “fail abysmally and you shall be rewarded,” adding: “What an embarrassment.” Tory MP Louie French also said that “April Fools’ Day has come early … just when we thought Keir Starmer couldn’t be any more desperate and out of touch.”
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
