Boris Johnson has put forward his brother Jo Johnson, several Tory grandees and his chief strategic adviser for peerages, while numerous Brexit-backers are also set to head to the Lords after Downing Street revealed its new list on Friday. But Jeremy Corbyn’s reported nomination John Bercow has been snubbed despite previous speakers going on to gain a seat in the House of Lords after leaving their role in office.

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Ex-England cricket player Sir Ian Botham, who supported the Leave campaign, newspaper owner Evgeny Lebedev and former leader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth Davidson are among 36 new peerages announced by the Government on Friday.

Philip May, the husband of Theresa May, Boris Johnson’s predecessor in Downing Street, will also receive a knighthood.

The peerage list includes former MPs who rebelled against the Labour position to back Brexit, including Kate Hoey, Ian Austin, Frank Field and Gisela Stuart.

But Mr Johnson did pick Conservative former chancellors Ken Clarke and Philip Hammond for peerages, after he stripped the Tory whip from them after they defied him over Brexit.

He also selected his own brother Jo, who dealt his older sibling a major blow in resigning from his Cabinet citing “the national interest”.

And Mr Johnson nominated his chief strategic adviser Sir Edward Lister, a long-term ally of the Prime Minister who supported him as London mayor.

But there is no sign of Mr Bercow, who was snubbed from the list, after his retirement.

Discussing his disappointment at not being given a seat in the House of Lords after serving as Speaker for 10 years, he previously said the issue over the “long-standing convention” of Speakers being granted a peerage was “best decided by other people”.

He told BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions programme earlier this year: “It was my enormous privilege to serve for just over 10 years as the speaker of the house of commons.

“I’m not going to sit awake at night worrying about it, all I will say is that it was an honour to serve for longer as speaker than any speaker in the post-war period.

“I’m sure I didn’t please everybody, I know I didn’t. I did my best and I didn’t want to be speaker simply so I could say to my kids or one day, god willing, my grandchildren I served as speaker.

“I tried to make a difference.”

Following ten years in Parliament, Mr Bercow stepped down as Speaker in 2019 and lamented Brexit as the greatest error from Britain since the Second World War.

Mr Bercow has argued that during his time as Speaker, he always acted impartially and refused to let his views govern how he behaved in his role.

But the Speaker was a constant thorn in the side of Brexiteers and his behaviour in his final months prompted criticism from Brexit supporters who claimed he was trying to thwart the process of taking the UK out of the EU with many of his rulings.

The controversial former Speaker had a front-row seat and was often pivotal in the Brexit crisis smothering the UK since the EU referendum in June 2016.

He repeatedly came under fire for undermining the government’s Brexit plans and was accused of “unilaterally chaining the rules” to allow Tory Remainers to take control of the Commons.

For instance, he allowed a motion to vote on the Benn Bill, which eventually passed into law and forced the Prime Minister to seek a Brexit delay from the EU.

Mr Bercow has previously admitted he “played a part” in blocking a no deal Brexit.

And just days after quitting as House of Commons Speaker, he sparked fury when he described Brexit as “the biggest foreign policy mistake in the post-war period”.

Mr Bercow said he would no longer “remain impartial” after stepping down from his decade long role.