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Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel receive a knighthood and damehood in Boris Johnson honours list
Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list has just been published. He has awarded seven peerages. Among the names are former Conservative mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey, current Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen and former special adviser to Johnson Charlotte Owen. Nadine Dorries is not on the list.
Also on the list are former cabinet ministers Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel who will receive a knighthood and a damehood respectively.
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Rishi Sunak had ‘no involvement or input’ into Johnson’s honours list, says press secretary
Rishi Sunak’s press secretary says he had “no involvement or input” into Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list.
The prime minister’s press secretary said: “As is convention, the prime minister forwarded the former prime minister’s peerage list to House of Lords Appointments Commission unaltered.
“Holac then passed back their approved list. The prime minister then accepted Holac’s approved list and forwarded it unamended to the Sovereign for their approval. He had no involvement or input into the approved list.
“It is a point of fact that it is made public by the Commission if a prime minister overrules the Commission’s advice.”
Andrea Jenkyns, the Conservative MP for Morley and Outwood who served as parliamentary undersecretary of state for skills between July and October 2022, has reacted to her newly awarded damehood on Twitter.
She made headlines shortly after being appointed parliamentary undersecretary for putting her middle finger up at protesters.
I am deeply honoured to have been awarded a Damehood (DBE) for public and political services, having been nominated by our Nation’s greatest Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher, the Rt Hon. @BorisJohnson, it was an honour to serve in his Government as a Minister & a Whip 🇬🇧
— Andrea Jenkyns MP 🇬🇧 (@andreajenkyns) June 9, 2023
Boris Johnson rewards aides implicated in Partygate scandal
Pippa Crerar, our political editor, notes some of those on the list were implicated in the Partygate scandal.
Among those honoured are Jack Doyle, who served as Downing Street director of communications from April 2021 to February 2022, and Rosie Bate-Williams, the former prime minister’s press secretary.
BREAKING: Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list finally published.
Includes host of former Tory aides, some implicated in Partygate scandal.
Several former City Hall advisors. And friends of his wife Carrie.
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) June 9, 2023
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel receive a knighthood and damehood in Boris Johnson honours list
Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list has just been published. He has awarded seven peerages. Among the names are former Conservative mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey, current Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen and former special adviser to Johnson Charlotte Owen. Nadine Dorries is not on the list.
Also on the list are former cabinet ministers Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel who will receive a knighthood and a damehood respectively.
Earlier today, just hours before resigning and prompting a byelection, Dorries said “the last thing I would want to do would be to cause a byelection in my constituency”.
Brutal efficiency of Tory WhatsApp group on display:
She said she “loves” Boris and Carrie Johnson “to bits” but is not tempted to tour the world with the former prime minister, as suggested by Talk TV presenter Vanessa Feltz.
Nadine Dorries claims there are people in the House of Lords without her ‘record of achievement’ but that they did go to Oxbridge
Nadine Dorries said there are people sitting in the House of Lords who do not have her “record of achievement” but that “they did go to Oxford or Cambridge”.
She told Talk TV: “There are many people sitting in the house of lords who do not have the record of achievement that I have but they did go to Oxford or Cambridge and they do move in slightly different circles to me.”
She says she was born on the “poorest street in Britain” and that it would have been “unusual for someone from my background” to be ennobled in the House of Lords.
One of the reasons she hung on was because it would have been “amazing” for somebody from her background to be a peer, she said.
She has had “a number of conversations over the last 24 hours” with Boris Johnson but that she has already started leaving Tory WhatsApp groups.
Nadine Dorries says ‘something significant’ prompted her to stand down
Speaking minutes after announcing her resignation, Nadine Dorries has said that “something significant” prompted her to change her mind about sparking a byelection but will not reveal what that was.
The MP for Mid Bedfordshire told Talk TV, where she also has a show, that she had changed her mind on the issue this morning but that: “I can’t reveal everything”.
Admitting that “the House of Lords thing was on the cards” she said that in the course of the day “something significant did happen to change my mind”.
She added: “I didn’t want to cause a byelection but I got over myself frankly and it’s time to do the right thing.”
She said later in the interview that she was “relieved” and that she is not happy with the way her party has conducted itself over the last year.
She said she will continue presenting her TV show and writing her Daily Mail column without the “guilt” she had been bearing.
Here’s the full story on Nadine Dorries’ resignation, from Aubrey Allegretti:
In the 2019 general election, Nadine Dorries won 60% of the vote in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency. The Labour candidate, who came in second, was well behind on 22% and the Liberal Democrats won 13% of the vote. The Greens were on 4%.
Dorries increased her majority from 20,983 in 2017 to 24,664 in 2019, with a swing of 2.4% from Labour to the Conservatives.
Dorries’ resignation comes after the Times reported overnight that the staunch Johnson ally had been removed from Johnson’s honours list – along with Alok Sharma – to avoid potential byelections.
But now, no matter what the contents of the former prime minister’s soon to be published list, a byelection in Mid Bedfordshire is a certainty.
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