Resignation Honours Lists 2023-05-11
2023-05-11
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The Electoral Reform Society poll found that only 7% of people supported the former Prime Minister's resignation honours list, which included controversial peers.
Whether he has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the impact of the publication of the resignation honours lists on public trust in (a) politicians and (b) political institutions. An Electoral Reform Society poll found that just 7% of people supported stuffing more peers into the Lords, after he had already bloated the Lords with his brother, a Russian oligarch, cash-for-peerages Tory treasurers and now his father.
It is a long-standing convention present under successive Governments that outgoing Prime Ministers can draw up a resignation list. Any names proposed are subject to the usual propriety checks.
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The specific ask about blocking the honours lists was not addressed.
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The Electoral Reform Society poll found that only 7% of people supported the former Prime Minister's resignation honours list, which included controversial peers.
An Electoral Reform Society poll found that just 7% of people supported stuffing more peers into the Lords in the former former Prime Minister's resignation honours list. After just seven weeks in office, the former Prime Minister is seeking to anoint her Tufton Street supporters in the Institute of Economic Affairs and the TaxPayers Alliance as life peers. In a cost of living crisis, will the Government listen to the public and block both the Prime Minister's predecessors' resignation honours lists?
As I say, this is a long-standing convention that has gone on under successive Administrations. It continues to be a convention. It is typical, according to convention, that the Prime Minister forwards lists on having received them from former Prime Ministers, but only after they have gone through the necessary and relevant checks; that does take place.
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The specific ask about blocking the honours lists was not addressed.
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