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One former standards watchdog chairman said that honours were being given out like “lollipops” as a “political device”.

There has been much indignation at the roll-call of those ennobled in the New Year Honours. There’s been bewilderment that ...

So 2025 kicked off with the annual announcement of the New Year’s Honours. This is normally a list of the great and the good, ...

London, IRNA – British lawmakers have strongly criticized the Keir Starmer government for its stance on the dire humanitarian ...

Khan was awarded the gong in the New Year Honours list - but has come in for heavy criticism from his political opponents as ...

Sir Sadiq says he is "truly humbled" to receive the award but admits that there has been a mixed reaction from his family. He ...

Sadiq Khan has said his children think he has “sold out” by accepting a knighthood ...

Other high-profile names in the New Year Honours include actor and president of mental-health charity Mind Stephen Fry and ...

John Swinney has pledged to eradicate child poverty in the coming year. Who remembers in 2015 when Nicola Sturgeon pledged to close the ...

The accolades include a knighthood for former senior parter at Freshfields, Edward Charles Graham, an OBE for Ian Karet, ...