Former Welsh Secretary awarded peerage in Sunak’s resignation list
Former Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire MP Simon Hart has been awarded a peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list.
Mr Hart served as secretary of state for Wales under Boris Johnson and then as Rishi Sunak’s chief whip, enforcing party discipline.
The former minister lost his seat at the general election last July, as the Conservatives suffered a wipeout in Wales.
Michael Gove
A number of Tory politicians also received peerages and knighthoods. Former education and housing secretary Michael Gove was confirmed to have been given a seat in the House of Lords after being heavily tipped for a peerage.
Mr Gove, who is now the editor of the Spectator magazine, has served in the cabinet of four prime ministers.
Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor in Mr Sunak’s cabinet, and ex-foreign secretary James Cleverly were awarded knighthoods.
There were also knighthoods for former defence secretary Grant Shapps and ex-work and pensions secretary Mel Stride.
Elsewhere, former England cricketer James Anderson was awarded a knighthood. Sir James retired from test cricket in July having taken more wickets than any fast bowler in test history.
Matthew Vaughn, the filmmaker behind Layer Cake, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, and the Kingsman films was also awarded a knighthood for his services to the creative industries.
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Wow the hypocrisy of Simon Hart knows no bounds. This is the very same Simon Hart who called for a referendum on a bigger Senedd, happily taking his place unelected in an enlarged House of Lords that has seen no referendum to support it’s expansion –
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-61534406
Falsely ‘honoured’ for his role in keeping Wales down. Sickening!
I hope the Welsh media ask the Welsh Tories about this hypocrisy. But I doubt it. They’ll probably celebrate someone from Wales “doing well”.
Hart’s hypocrisy knows no bounds.
The lie.
Simon Hart: ” I came into politics to serve the public and make a difference to Welsh society”.
The truth.
Simon Hart: ” I entered politics to serve myself, sell Wales out to the English establishment to secure a golden pension and knighthood.”
For services to absolishing Wales.
Kind of inevitable really, wasn’t it ? Declining a peerage or knighthood is a greater mark of distinction these days.
Jeremy Hunt did not get a peerage, not yet!
If he was made a peer there would be a by-election in his Surrey seat.
A majority of only 800.
What an opportunity for the Lib Dems to prove that they are the only future for England.
Perhaps he still has hope of another go at the leadership – I always forget he is still an MP.
Rishi Sunak: just when you think he’s gone, he does the dirty,
Gove should be in the Tower with Fat Shanks…
And slap across the face for Cymru…
I expect the rest are equally repulsive…
Or you can call it kicking him upstairs so he doesn’t try to return as an MP for another leadership campaign – and so he isn’t on the outside p**sing in but on the inside out.
I was right, what a nasty little fellow he is…
His diary/biography “Ungovernable” is well worth a read. It’s quite unbelievable that we had such a shambolic government (and he was whip during the better of the last 3 tory governments!)
A better title might have been “Abolish Westminster”.
This is everything that’s wrong with the English Establishment. Simon Hart gets a peerage after he threatened war on this island because the UK Government told him he couldn’t murder foxes for fun 🙄🤨😠😡
Blimey! That’s absolutely shameful, even for the disgusting tory party.