2020 Political Honours

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The 2020 Political Honours List [1] was released concurrently with the delayed 2019 Dissolution Honours [2] on 31 July 2020.

Contents

A second Political Honours List was released on 22 December 2020. [3]

Life Peerage

Conservative

July
December

Labour

July
December

Non-Affiliated

July

Crossbench

July
December

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