Former Conservative Chief Whip Simon Hart, who wrote revelatory diaries about managing Tory MPs, also received a peerage alongside former Scotland Secretary Alister Jack, former Transport Secretary Mark Harper, ex-Attorney General Victoria Prentis and former Tory Chief Executive Stephen Massey. Under British rules, a resigning prime minister can choose to make appointments to the upper chamber, subject to vetting from a House of Lords scrutiny body.
Ex-Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, former Home Secretary James Cleverly and former Deputy Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell, who all remain in the Commons as backbenchers, received knighthoods. Former Defense Secretary Grant Shapps also got that honor alongside Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride, while ex-Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villers was awarded a damehood.
The Labour government is currently passing legislation to remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers who sit in the Lords by birthright. In opposition, it previously pledged to abolish the unelected house entirely.