Boris Johnson has appointed the QC David Wolfson as a life peer and junior justice minister.
One of the leading commercial barristers in the country, he will leave One Essex Court chambers to take up a place in the House of Lords as a Baron.
The Liverpool-born lawyer was educated at the city’s King David High School, the Western Wall yeshiva, and Selwyn College Cambridge. He is a former chair of the JC Trust, the body that oversaw the newspaper before it was liquidated and bought out by a consortium in April.
He was made a QC in 2009 and more recently has backed the prime minister’s stance over controversial legislation on Brexit.
