Former Liverpool MP Luciana Berger made a peer in House of Lords

Ms Berger quit Labour in 2019 but rejoined last year

Former Liverpool Member of Parliament Luciana Berger has been made a peer in the House of Lords. Ms Berger represented the Liverpool Wavertree constituency as an MP between 2010 and 2019.

Ms Berger quit the Labour Party in 2019 in protest at the party's handling of antisemitism allegations, but she re-joined last year. In January of this year she was given a key role in shaping Labour's mental health strategy by Sir Keir Starmer.

And now the Prime Minister has given the former Liverpool MP a seat in the House of Lords as he appoints dozens of new peers to the upper chamber of Parliament.

Ms Berger is joined in the new batch of peerages by former shadow culture secretary Thangam Debbonaire, who lost her Bristol Central seat at the general election and Sue Gray, who was briefly Sir Keir's chief of staff before being moved out of that role as the early weeks of the new Labour government were dogged by infighting and rows.

The Conservatives have appointed six new peers including former deputy prime minister Therese Coffey, who originally hails from Merseyside and Toby Young, the associate editor of The Spectator. The Liberal Democrats have appointed two new peers.

After quitting Labour in 2019, Ms Berger joined a breakaway group of MPs called The Independent Group, before later standing unsuccessfully as a Liberal Democrat candidate later that year.