Ian Hislop has perfectly summarised Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list with a blistering Have I Got News For You monologue.
The former prime minister handed peerages to former London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey and Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen, while giving staunch loyalists Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel a knighthood and a damehood respectively.
Benjamin Gascoigne, a former deputy chief of staff to the ex-prime minister will enter the House of Lords alongside Ross Kempsell, a former political director of the Conservative Party.
Charlotte Owen, a former adviser to Mr Johnson, will become one of the youngest peers, while Kulveer Singh Ranger, a former director of transport while Boris Johnson was London mayor, will also be elevated to the Lords.
Speaking on Have I Got News For You, Hislop, the editor of Private Eye magazine, said: “Normally we go though the honours list looking for people who are dodgy. This year we went through looking for anyone who wasn’t.”
Watch the clip in full below:
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