Guardian today,
"Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, has criticised his party's decision to nominate the human rights and civil liberties campaigner Shami Chakrabarti for a peerage, saying it was "a mistake" and that he had not been consulted.

"The timing is not great for the Labour party," Watson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme following Jeremy Corbyn's decision to put Chakrabarti forward, a move that has attracted condemnation from other Labour MPs.

"I wasn't aware, I wasn't consulted whether Shami was going in. I didn't know that we'd provided citations for this particular round, and I do think it's a mistake," Watson said."