Michael Gove gets seat in UK’s House of Lords as Rishi Sunak hands out honors – POLITICO

LONDON — Former Conservative Cabinet Minister Michael Gove was handed a peerage in former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s resignation honors Friday, allowing him to sit for life in the unelected House of Lords.

Gove, who now edits the influential center-right Spectator magazine, sat in Cabinet for almost the entirety of the Conservatives’ 14 years in office between 2010 and 2024. He served variously as education, justice, environment and housing secretary under four prime ministers.

Gove twice ran for Tory leader in 2016 and 2019, coming third each time, and stood down from the House of Commons at last year’s election. He was a prominent Cabinet proponent of Brexit in the 2016 campaign, but later fell out spectacularly with fellow Eurosceptic Boris Johnson.