A Tory donor and a former editor of the Daily Mail are set to be appointed to the House of Lords, according to a leaked list of political peerages.
Former newspaper editor Paul Dacre and businessman Sir Michael Hintze, who has given millions to the Tory party, appear on the list of 25 individuals.
According to the Telegraph, 15 Tories will feature, including former MP Stewart Jackson, who was chief-of-staff to the former Brexit Secretary David Davis.
Sir Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, who had the whip suspended by Boris Johnson in 2019, also appears on the leaked list.
Eight peerages are expected to be handed to Labour figures, including the party's former leader Tom Watson, who resigned in 2019, and the former MP Ruth Smeeth.
Frances O'Grady, who will be replaced as general secretary of the Trade Union Congress in January, also appears on the leaked list alongside the former general secretary of the Unison union, Dave Prentis.
The ex-First Minister of Northern Ireland and DUP leader Arlene Foster is set to join the upper chamber as a non-affiliated peer, according to the leak.
After Theresa May's ill-fated election gamble in June 2017, Ms Foster supported the former PM's government under a supply and confidence arrangement.
No10 declined to comment on the leaked list of names, which could be tweaked in the coming weeks, but said details of peerages will be announced in due course.
The list was drawn up while Mr Johnson was in Downing Street and is separate from the former PM's resignation honours, which could be months away from publication.
But the move is likely to prompt further concern among those calling for the Lords - one of the largest upper chambers in the world with 757 members - to be reformed.
Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesperson Alistair Carmichael MP said: "Yet again the Conservative Government have broken their promise to cut the size of the House of Lords. Still they pack the Lords with endless party donors and allies.
"It is time we once and for all reformed this undemocratic institution."
