Keir Starmer to make Iceland boss Richard Walker a Labour peer
Appointment marks a rapid political transformation for a former Tory donor and potential candidate for MPThe formerly Conservative-supporting boss of the supermarket Iceland is to be made a Labour peer when the party appoints another 25 representatives to parliament’s upper house later this...
<p>Appointment marks a rapid political transformation for a former Tory donor and potential candidate for MP</p><p>The formerly Conservative-supporting boss of the supermarket Iceland is to be made a Labour peer when the party <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/03/keir-starmer-award-25-labour-peerages-house-of-lords">appoints another 25 representatives</a> to parliament’s upper house later this month.</p><p>Keir Starmer will appoint Richard Walker to the House of Lords, the Guardian understands, the culmination of an unusual and rapid political transformation for someone named as a prospective Tory MP candidate a little over three years ago.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/07/keir-starmer-to-make-iceland-boss-richard-walker-a-labour-peer">Continue reading...</a>
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