Ms Brady's appointment to the upper house comes just five months after she was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship The Apprentice star Karren Brady has been hired by David Cameron – as a member of the House of Lords. Ms Brady, 44, who is an  aide to Lord Sugar on the hit BBC television programme, will be handed a Conservative peerage by the Prime Minister later this month, The Mail on Sunday understands. Mr Cameron hopes  that Ms Brady, who was appointed managing director of Birmingham City Football Club at the age of 23 by the porn baron David Sullivan, and is now vice-chairman of West Ham United, will burnish his credentials among female voters and the business community in the run-up  to the Election.
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Ms Brady will be handed Conservative peerage later this month
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Mr Cameron hopes she will burnish his credentials among female voters
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Appointment comes just five months after she was awarded CBE
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Ms Brady will be among 24 new peers to be announced in next two weeks
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