Former Met chief to be a peer
Former Met Police deputy commissioner Brian Paddick, JCB boss Sir Anthony Bamford, Doreen Lawrence and Ministry of Sound mogul James Palumbo are among those to be made peers in the House of Lords
Labour Lords welcome Doreen Lawrence peerage
Labour peers have welcomed the news that Stephen Lawrence's mother Doreen is to be made a Labour peer:
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