England cricket nice Ian Botham is to be made a Lord by Boris Johnson as a reward for his help of Brexit, in accordance with a report in The Occasions. The newspaper stated Botham could be amongst 30 new life friends introduced by British Prime Minister Johnson to mark his first yr at 10 Downing Road. Botham, one in all cricket’s most excellent all-rounders with 5,283 Take a look at runs and 383 wickets, publicly backed the Brexit marketing campaign and appeared alongside Johnson earlier than the 2016 referendum that noticed Britons vote to go away the European Union.
There was no quick remark from Downing Road.
The 64-year-old Botham is at present formally generally known as “Sir Ian” after he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2007 for providers to charity — he has raised hundreds of thousands of kilos, primarily for leukaemia analysis — in addition to cricket.
Being made a peer would imply Botham turned a member of the unelected Home of Lords, one of many two chambers of Britain’s parliament alongside the democratically elected Home of Commons.
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If elevated to the peerage, Botham would even be the ninth Take a look at cricketer to take a seat within the Lords.
That checklist consists of the late former England captains David Sheppard and Colin Cowdrey, West Indies’ Learie Constantine — Britain’s first black peer again in 1969 — and former England girls’s captain Rachael Heyhoe Flint, who died three years in the past.
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