Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has handed peerages to former prime minister Theresa May, former chairman of the 1922 Committee Sir Graham Brady and his chief of staff in the dissolution honours list.

Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden, former chief whip Julian Smith, former defence secretary Ben Wallace and Scotland secretary Alister Jack have been nominated for knighthoods.

Sunak’s chief of staff Liam Booth-Smith has been proposed for a peerage along with Britain’s former transport secretary Chris Grayling, Sir Alok Sharma and Dame Eleanor Laing.

Among Sir Keir Starmer’s nominations for peerages are Dame Margaret Beckett, Harriet Harman, Margaret Hodge and Kevan Jones.