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, ...

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

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

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

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

Unfortunately, it continues to be devalued by the award of honours to people who don’t deserve one. An honour should be given on merit, not through a mentality of “Buggins’ Turn”, or a reward for long ...

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 ...

Senior Labour MP Emily Thornberry was made a dame, as was former Labour cabinet minister Patricia Hewitt. Mayor since 2016, ...

IT is hard to know which of Sir Sadiq Khan’s achievements as Mayor of London most justifies the knighthood bestowed on him in ...

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of ‘rewarding the failing Sadiq Khan’.