Thurrock MP Jackie Doyle-Price made dame by Liz Truss

The former prime minister has nominated three people to receive life peerages and eight people to receive honours including MBEs, OBEs, and knighthoods.

Mrs Doyle-Price will become a dame in recognition of her public and political service following her time as minister of state for industry in the Truss cabinet, as well as her role as Conservative MP for Thurrock.

Ms Truss' list had been fraught with controversy even before being published, with calls for Rishi Sunak to block the handout of honours given the short-lived nature of his predecessor's premiership.

Former PM - Liz Truss (Image: PA)

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The former prime minister resigned last October after the fallout from her disastrous mini-budget, becoming the country’s shortest-serving prime minister after just 49 days in office.

The list, which had been long-delayed, was published by the government at the same time as a slew of separate New Year Honours.

It also comes in the middle of the Commons Christmas recess with MPs away from Westminster, with Number 10 likely hoping to minimise any fallout from the publication of the honours.

Labour has branded the list a “slap in the face to working people” while the Liberal Democrats have described it as a “shameless move”.

Since leaving office, Ms Truss has continued to defend and build on her brand of conservatism, making a bid to find a solution to stagnant growth in the UK and elsewhere.

Following the publication of her resignation honours list, Ms Truss said: “I am delighted these champions for the Conservative causes of freedom, limited government and a proud and sovereign Britain have been suitably honoured.”

Labour’s shadow cabinet office minister Jonathan Ashworth said: “This list is proof positive of Rishi Sunak’s weakness and a slap in the face to working people who are paying the price of the Tories crashing the economy.

“Honours should be for those committed to public service, not rewards for Tory failure. Rather than apologise for crashing the economy and driving up mortgage rates, costing families thousands, Rishi Sunak has nodded through these tarnished gongs because he is too weak to lead a Tory Party completely out of touch with working people.”

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: “This shameless move to reward Liz Truss’s car crash cronies is matched only by Sunak’s weakness in failing to block it.

“Truss handing out gongs after blowing a hole in the public finances and leaving families reeling from spiralling mortgage costs calls this whole honours system into disrepute.

“The honours system should celebrate hardworking people who have achieved great things; sullying this celebration shows just how out of touch this Conservative government really is.”