Historically honours are just about even on appointments to HoL.
Since 1958, 1517 life peer have been appointed - 481 Tory, 509 Labour, the rest liberal and cross party.
The most generous prime ministers are Tony Blair - 374 including 162 Labour. Followed by David Cameron - 245 including 110 Tory.
Boris is of course relatively new to the game having had only a couple of years practice at prime ministerial patronage. It is just speculation as to whether he may exceed his predecessors (although unlikely to last long enough).
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