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UK honours system

  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    Gareth Southgate among 1,200 awarded New Year honours

    Author Jacqueline Wilson, actress Carey Mulligan and Post Office campaigners among 1,200 recognised in UK’s annual list

    Jacqueline Wilson, Gareth Southgate and Carey Mulligan
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    UK politics
    Thérèse Coffey and Rachel Maclean in line for peerages

    Former Cabinet ministers are among six Conservatives set to enter Lords

    Former Tory ministers Thérèse Coffey, left, and Rachel Maclean, right
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Tory donor Lord Ranger and tech baron Lawrence Jones lose UK honours

    A total of six people were stripped of their awards by the King

    Rami Ranger (left)  and Lawrence Jones (right)
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Sadiq Khan to be knighted in New Year honours list

    Political veterans including Labour MP Emily Thornberry and ousted Tory mayor Andy Street to receive gongs

    Andy Street, Emily Thornberry and Sadiq Khan
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Sunak hands peerage to Theresa May in eleventh-hour honours list

    The former Conservative prime minister will join the House of Lords

    Former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May has been awarded a peerage in the dissolution honours list
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Post Office campaigner Alan Bates knighted in King’s birthday honours

    Former PM Gordon Brown, LSE chief Julia Hoggett and HSBC chair Mark Tucker all receive recognition

    Post Office scandal campaigner Alan Bates
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Conservative party donor Mohamed Mansour is awarded knighthood

    Labour criticises PM Rishi Sunak after Egyptian-born billionaire features in latest list of honours

    Mohamed Mansour
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Stephen Schwarzman given honorary British knighthood

    Blackstone founder named among US recipients alongside Mark Milley, former chairman of joint chiefs of staff

    Stephen Schwarzman
  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    Former chancellor Sajid Javid knighted in New Year honours

    Accolade for Johnson ally turned critic, plus awards to Covid adviser, corporate leaders, Glastonbury founder and FT journalist

    Sajid Javid
  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    Liz Truss sends 3 allies to House of Lords in resignation honours list

    Former UK prime minister exercises traditional power despite short and chaotic 49-day term in Number 10

    Liz Truss
  • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Can UK honours system arise from the swamp?

    With two of Liz Truss’s nominees reportedly refusing gongs, Britain could learn better practices from abroad

    Liz Truss and Boris Johnson attend the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph on Whitehall
  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    Spy chief, the late Martin Amis and Vogue editor receive UK honours

    Business leaders including Robin Budenberg, Jeremy Darroch and Mark Thompson knighted

    Martin Amis, Anna Wintour and Sir Richard Moore
  • Friday, 9 June, 2023
    UK politics
    Johnson quits parliament in protest at MPs’ ‘kangaroo court’

    Former prime minister piles pressure on Sunak by triggering by-election after receiving results of partygate probe

  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
    Trussonomics thinker and Vote Leave chief on draft list for honours

    Nominations come even though Liz Truss served only 49 days as prime minister

    Liz Truss served as prime minister for only 49 days
  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
    Ousted Treasury chief Tom Scholar named in New Year honours

    Former top UK officials receive awards, alongside football’s Euro-winning ‘Lionesses’ and rock and fashion icons

    Sir Tom Scholar, who has been made a knight of the Bath for public service
  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    Billionaire Tory donor Michael Hintze nominated for life peerage

    Boris Johnson’s final honours recommendations include hedge fund manager and party figures

    Hedge fund manager and Conservative party donor Michael Hintze
  • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
    Women take record proportion of Queen’s Jubilee honours

    Arlene Foster among those to feature on list ahead of platinum jubilee celebrations

  • Monday, 7 March, 2022
    Andrew Hill
    Why rewards for failure are toxic and how to end them

    Handing out prizes for screwing up, whatever form they take, are poisonous and pollute entire organisations

    Gavin Williamson in front of the UK Houses of Parliament
  • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
    London police sets up probe into UK honours abuse allegations

    Met’s move follows revelations that led to resignation last year of Prince Charles’ former valet

    Michael Fawcett
  • Friday, 31 December, 2021
    Covid experts and community helpers dominate New Year honours

    List includes Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance while Tony Blair has been appointed a Knight of the Garter

    Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, and Patrick Valance, government chief scientific adviser
  • Friday, 11 June, 2021
    Damehood for Kate Bingham amid honours recognising ‘Covid heroes’

    Vaccine task force chief and lead scientist made dames while Credit Suisse boss is knighted

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    Retail bosses among business leaders given New Year honours

    List dominated by healthcare workers and public sector professionals in year overshadowed by Covid pandemic

  • Friday, 9 October, 2020
    Hundreds of Covid workers recognised in Birthday Honours

    GSK’s Emma Walmsley and TV baker Mary Berry become dames and MBE for Marcus Rashford for child poverty work

  • Monday, 3 August, 2020
    Robert Shrimsley
    British politics will stay sleazy until the Lords is reformed

    Latest honours list is further evidence that the UK’s second house is no longer fit for purpose

    Members of the House of Lords take their seats for the state opening of parliament last October
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2019
    Calls for government inquiry grow after leak of UK honours list

    Embarrassing data breach includes addresses of military and security personnel

    New Years Honours - composite of Elton John, Sharon White and Iain Duncan Smith FT Montage
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