Sunak accuses Johnson of ‘not right’ peerage demands as Tory civil war continues
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his one-time Conservative ally asked him to ‘do something I wasn’t prepared to do’.
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his one-time Conservative ally asked him to ‘do something I wasn’t prepared to do’.
The list has sparked outrage after Johnson knighted Jacob Rees-Mogg, gave a damehood to Priti Patel and an OBE to his hairdresser.
Johnson told The Times that the Cabinet Office was refusing to return his notebooks in case he turns them over to the inquiry,.
The former chancellor told parliament that he "did not attend any parties" in December 2021. He received a FPN just months after.
"As a backbencher, if I can't call it out and say it as it is then who is going to do it?", the Labour MP said.
It comes after the former prime minister accused a Commons partygate inquiry of conducting a ‘witch hunt’.
A former Lords speaker described the handling of the Johnson’s honours roll as an ‘extraordinary mess’.
The former PM heaped rewards on those who worked in Downing Street at the time of lockdown-busting parties in his honours list.
The former prime minister compared the Conservative-majority Privileges Committee to a “kangaroo court” and a “witch hunt”.
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