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Rishi Sunak rewards aides, allies with honours in resignation list
Former British prime minister Rishi Sunak has rewarded his former Cabinet colleagues, Downing Street aides and advisers in his resignation honours list released by the UK government on Friday. While his former housing secretary Michael Gove and former transport secretary Mark Harper are among seven allies elevated with life peerages to the House of Lords, former ministers Andrew Mitchell and Theresa Villiers have been conferred with Knight and Dame Commander honours respectively. Former England team cricketer James Anderson and filmmaker Matthew Vaughn are among those granted Knighthoods in the honours list. Sunak, 44, was Britain's first Indian heritage prime minister until July 4 last year, when as the Conservative Party leader he lost the general election to Labour's Keir Starmer. It is customary for an outgoing prime minister to request the British monarch to grant peerages, knighthoods, damehoods or other awards in the British honours system to his chosen political allies and
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Indian-origin 'unsung heroes' on King Charles' 2025 New Year Honours List
Community leaders, campaigners, academics, and medics are among over 30 Indian-origin professionals to be recognised in King Charles' 2025 New Year Honours List released in London on Friday night. Ranil Malcolm Jayawardena, a Conservative member of Parliament of Sri Lankan and Indian heritage, has been conferred a Knighthood for political and public service along with recently resigned England men's football team manager Gareth Southgate, for services to the game. More than 1,200 recipients are named on the 2025 honours list across all sectors, with particular commendation to role models in sport, healthcare, academia and voluntary service. Every day, ordinary people go out and do extraordinary things for their communities, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said. They represent the very best of the UK and that core value of service which I put at the centre of everything this government does. The New Year Honours List celebrates more of these unsung heroes, and I thank them for their
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Why UK revoked honours of British Indian figures Rami Ranger, Anil Bhanot
British Indian leaders Rami Ranger and Anil Bhanot lose UK honours amid allegations of misconduct, sparking debates over free speech
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Paul McCartney, J K Rowling top UK honours list
The list recognises 'extraordinary people' from across the UK
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