Labour’s five new peers announced

The Labour Party have confirmed the appointment of five new peers to the House of Lords, they are:

Sir Charles Allen CBE – Non-Executive Director of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games; Chairman of Global Radio Group

Sir William Haughey OBE – prominent Scottish businessman and CEO of City Refrigeration Holdings

Alicia Kennedy – former Deputy General Secretary of the Labour party

Doreen Lawrence OBE – campaigner for justice, race equality and better policing

Jonathan (Jon) Mendelsohn – business advisor and co-founder of LLM Communications

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