Emily Thornberry and Sadiq Khan named in New Year Honours list
Senior Labor MP Emily Thornberry and London Mayor Sadiq Khan are among those named in the New Year Honors list.
Thornberry said she was “honored and surprised” to be knighted.
Khan said it had been the “honor of a lifetime” to “serve the city I love” and that he was “truly honored” to be knighted.
conservative Andy Street, former Mayor of the West Midlands, Long-serving former schools minister Nick Gibb has also been awarded a knighthood.
Dame Emily told the Press Association: “My husband was knighted a few years ago and I have never felt comfortable sharing his title and calling myself ‘Lady Noogie’ but Dame Emily is one I am very proud to be. name used.”
She added: “I thought about my grandmothers, who were both not allowed to work as married women, and I thought how happy they would have been to see that.”
Dame Emily has been MP for Islington South since 2005 and currently chairs the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. She was not included in Sir Keir Starmer’s first cabinet following Labour’s general election victory.
She is now a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
The title of Khan, London’s first Muslim mayor, has caused some controversy.
Conservative MP Matthew Goodwin-Freeman, who organized a petition against his election, raised the issue with Khan at a public event earlier this month Challenge, and there was speculation at the time that he might win the honor.
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp also said the honor was a “reward for failure”, citing the city’s high knife crime rate and failure to meet housing targets.
Foreign Secretary David Lamy congratulated Sir Sadiq, saying he was proud that Britain was “a place where you can go from being a bus driver’s son, like a mayor, to becoming a knight of the kingdom.”
He also noted that he had introduced policies to improve London’s air quality, built more council homes and provided free school meals.
Sir Sadiq worked as a human rights lawyer before entering Parliament in 2005 as Tooting MP. He became Mayor of London in 2016 and has since served two terms.
Sir Andy, who was elected as the first mayor of the West Midlands in 2017, said he was just a “leading figure” in the project that made his role a success and that his appointment was a “delight to the people of the West Midlands” honor”. West Midlands”.
Several former MPs were also honored on the annual list.
Former MP Ranil Jayawardene, who was environment secretary during Liz Truss’s brief tenure as prime minister, and former Conservative deputy chief whip Marcus Jones have both been knighted.
Former Labor MP Kate Hollern, who lost her Blackburn seat to independent candidate Adnan Hussain in July, has been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
Lord Mike Katz, national chairman of the Jewish Labor Movement, was recently knighted by Lord Keir and appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
