Who is Charlotte Owen and why does she get a peerage?

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Charlotte Owen entered the House of Lords for the first time today, weeks after becoming the youngest peer in history at 29.

A former aide to Boris Johnson, Owen was included in his controversial resignation honors list in June, joining Tory colleagues Shaun Bailey and Ben Houchen in being elevated to the House of Lords by the former Prime Minister.

Mr Johnson's full list of honors was published shortly before he resigned on Friday June 9 and sparked a political row with Rishi Sunak after MPs Nadine Dorries and Nigel Adams omitted. ies of Mr Johnson handed gongs.

Ms Owen will now become Baroness Owen. Here we take a look at who she is and how she earned the honor.

Charlotte Katherine Tranter was born in 1993 and attended York University, where she graduated with a 2:1 degree in politics and international relations in 2015, reports ITV.

She worked as an intern at Portland - a strategic communications consultancy before working as a constituency intern for Conservative MP William Wragg for a months.

Ms Owen then worked as a parliamentary intern with Mr Johnson for six months. After that, she became a Parliamentary Assistant to Alok Sharma, serving in that role for seven months.

For one year and nine months after that, she served as Senior Parliamentary Assistant to Jake Berry and Mr Johnson, before working exclusively for the former Prime Minister for one year and two months.

From February 2021 to October 2022, Ms Owen served as Special Adviser to Mr Johnson and Liz Truss during her short ten...