CRICKET legend Jimmy Anderson has been given a knighthood by former PM Rishi Sunak — along with a string of senior Tories. The England fast bowler, who retired from international duty in July ...

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Rishi Sunak. Anderson, 42, retired from England duty last year, after taking a national record 704 Test wickets across 188 Tests, the most ever played by a specialist fast bowler and second only ...

Michael Gove is among those to have been awarded a gong in Rishi Sunak's delayed resignation honours list. The former Cabinet minister, who served across multiple departments, will join the House ...

Veteran cabinet minister Michael Gove has been awarded a peerage in Rishi Sunak's resignation honours list. Mr Gove - now editor of The Spectator magazine - was first elected to parliament in 2005 ...

One of England’s most esteemed cricketers, James Anderson, has been awarded a knighthood. The Burnley-born player was added to Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list after retiring from Test ...

Calls to scrap the House of Lords have been reignited, as the elevation of two former Tory Cabinet members to the House of Lords in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours was described as “one last ...

Mark Harper, who served as transport secretary under Mr Sunak, former attorney general Victoria Prentis, ex-Conservative Party CEO Stephen Massey, and Eleanor Shawcross, former director of the No ...

Former England cricketer James Anderson has been awarded a knighthood in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list. Sir James, who retired from test cricket in July having taken more wickets than ...

Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor in Mr Sunak's cabinet, and ex-foreign secretary James Cleverly were awarded knighthoods. Elsewhere, Matthew Vaughn, the filmmaker behind Layer Cake, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First ...

Sir James, who retired from test cricket in July having taken more wickets than any fast bowler in test history, was handed the gong by cricket-mad ex-PM Rishi Sunak in his resignation honours.