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Former Welsh Secretary awarded peerage in Sunak’s resignation list

11 Apr 2025 2 minute read
Simon Hart, former MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire. Photo Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Former Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire MP Simon Hart has been awarded a peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list.

Mr Hart served as secretary of state for Wales under Boris Johnson and then as Rishi Sunak’s chief whip, enforcing party discipline.

The former minister lost his seat at the general election last July, as the Conservatives suffered a wipeout in Wales.

Michael Gove

A number of Tory politicians also received peerages and knighthoods. Former education and housing secretary Michael Gove was confirmed to have been given a seat in the House of Lords after being heavily tipped for a peerage.

Mr Gove, who is now the editor of the Spectator magazine, has served in the cabinet of four prime ministers.

Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor in Mr Sunak’s cabinet, and ex-foreign secretary James Cleverly were awarded knighthoods.

There were also knighthoods for former defence secretary Grant Shapps and ex-work and pensions secretary Mel Stride.

Elsewhere, former England cricketer James Anderson was awarded a knighthood. Sir James retired from test cricket in July having taken more wickets than any fast bowler in test history.

Matthew Vaughn, the filmmaker behind Layer Cake, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, and the Kingsman films was also awarded a knighthood for his services to the creative industries.


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Llyn
Llyn
3 days ago

Wow the hypocrisy of Simon Hart knows no bounds. This is the very same Simon Hart who called for a referendum on a bigger Senedd, happily taking his place unelected in an enlarged House of Lords that has seen no referendum to support it’s expansion –
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-61534406

Fi yn unig
Fi yn unig
3 days ago
Reply to  Llyn

Falsely ‘honoured’ for his role in keeping Wales down. Sickening!

Llyn
Llyn
3 days ago
Reply to  Fi yn unig

I hope the Welsh media ask the Welsh Tories about this hypocrisy. But I doubt it. They’ll probably celebrate someone from Wales “doing well”.

Y Cymro
Y Cymro
3 days ago
Reply to  Llyn

Hart’s hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Y Cymro
Y Cymro
3 days ago

The lie.

Simon Hart: ” I came into politics to serve the public and make a difference to Welsh society”.

The truth.

Simon Hart: ” I entered politics to serve myself, sell Wales out to the English establishment to secure a golden pension and knighthood.”

Last edited 3 days ago by Y Cymro
Baxter
Baxter
3 days ago

For services to absolishing Wales.

hdavies15
hdavies15
3 days ago

Kind of inevitable really, wasn’t it ? Declining a peerage or knighthood is a greater mark of distinction these days.

Ernie The Smallholder
Ernie The Smallholder
3 days ago
Reply to  hdavies15

Jeremy Hunt did not get a peerage, not yet!
If he was made a peer there would be a by-election in his Surrey seat.
A majority of only 800.

What an opportunity for the Lib Dems to prove that they are the only future for England.

Mawkernewek
3 days ago

Perhaps he still has hope of another go at the leadership – I always forget he is still an MP.

Mab Meirion
Mab Meirion
3 days ago

Rishi Sunak: just when you think he’s gone, he does the dirty,

Gove should be in the Tower with Fat Shanks…

And slap across the face for Cymru…

I expect the rest are equally repulsive…

Mawkernewek
3 days ago
Reply to  Mab Meirion

Or you can call it kicking him upstairs so he doesn’t try to return as an MP for another leadership campaign – and so he isn’t on the outside p**sing in but on the inside out.

Mab Meirion
Mab Meirion
3 days ago
Reply to  Mab Meirion

I was right, what a nasty little fellow he is…

John
John
3 days ago

His diary/biography “Ungovernable” is well worth a read. It’s quite unbelievable that we had such a shambolic government (and he was whip during the better of the last 3 tory governments!)

Blake
Blake
2 days ago
Reply to  John

A better title might have been “Abolish Westminster”.

Owain Morgan
Owain Morgan
2 days ago

This is everything that’s wrong with the English Establishment. Simon Hart gets a peerage after he threatened war on this island because the UK Government told him he couldn’t murder foxes for fun 🙄🤨😠😡

Adam
Adam
7 hours ago

Blimey! That’s absolutely shameful, even for the disgusting tory party.

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