Boris Johnson: Who’s Charlotte Owen and why is she getting a peerage?

Charlotte Owen has entered the Home of Lords for the primary time at the moment, weeks after turning into the youngest-ever peer at 29.

A former aide to Boris Johnson, Owen was included in his controversial resignation honours listing in June, becoming a member of fellow Tories Shaun Bailey and Ben Houchen in being elevated to the Home of Lords by the ex-prime minister.

Mr Johnson’s full honours listing was revealed shortly earlier than he resigned on Friday (June 9) and sparked a political row with Rishi Sunak after MPs Nadine Dorries and Nigel Adams have been omitted.

A parliamentary hairdresser, Michael Fabricant MP and former dwelling secretary Priti Patel have been amongst among the different allies of Mr Johnson handed gongs.

Ms Owen will now develop into Baroness Owen. Right here we check out who she is and the way she earned the honour.

Charlotte Katherine Tranter was born in 1993 and attended the College of York, graduating with a 2:1 in politics and worldwide relations in 2015, ITV stories.

She labored as an intern at Portland – a strategic communications consultancy earlier than happening to work as a constituency intern for Tory MP William Wragg for one month.

Ms Owen then labored as a parliamentary intern to Mr Johnson for six months. After that she turned parliamentary assistant to Alok Sharma, holding the place for seven months.

For a yr and 9 months after this, she was a senior parliamentary assistant to Jake Berry and Mr Johnson, earlier than completely working for the previous prime minister for a yr and two months.

From February 2021 to October 2022, Ms Owen was a particular adviser to each Mr Johnson and Liz Truss throughout her brief tenure as PM.

Ms Owen additionally reportedly labored for Liz Truss and the No 10 coverage unit.

“She’s had a number of jobs in Parliament,” Sky Information’s Liz Bates stated. A kind of was working for Boris Johnson,

“She did in the long run work for the Quantity 10 coverage unit. And I feel on the finish of her political profession she was working for Liz Truss and the chief whip on the time, not an illustrious political profession by any stretch, however she’s going to go to the Home of Lords as effectively.”

Mr Johnson additionally gave awards to quite a few aides who have been embroiled within the Partygate scandal.

He was accused of a “sickening insult” to the bereaved after handing out gongs to allies caught up within the affair, together with one dubbed “occasion Marty”.

Martin Reynolds, his former principal personal secretary who boasted “we appear to have bought away with” the “carry your personal booze” backyard occasion throughout coronavirus restrictions, has been nominated for a peerage.

There have been additionally honours for Dan Rosenfield, his ex-chief of workers, and Jack Doyle, his former director of communications, each of whom have been in workplace throughout among the rule-breaking.

Former No 10 head of operations Shelley Williams-Walker – allegedly nicknamed “DJ SWW” after enjoying tunes from a laptop computer throughout a No 10 occasion on the eve of Prince Philip’s funeral – was given a damehood.

And there was a peerage for one-time London mayoral contender Shaun Bailey, who was photographed at an obvious lockdown Christmas occasion at Conservative Get together headquarters in 2020.

Labour stated it was a “sickening insult that those that deliberate Covid events and held boozy lockdown bashes whereas households have been unable to mourn family members are actually set to be handed gongs by Rishi Sunak”.

The row over Ms Dorrries and Mr Adams – who additionally each resigned final week – not being included within the listing for peerages rumbles on.

Mr Johnson accused Mr Sunak of “speaking garbage” after the prime minister claimed he had requested him to do “one thing I used to be not ready to do”.

*This text was amended at 14:40 on 19 June. A earlier model stated Jacob Rees-Mogg and Andre Jenkyns had been elevated to the Home of Lords in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours listing. There have been in actual fact given a Knights Bachelor Knighthood and Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire. respectively*