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Liz Truss ‘planning knighthoods and other awards for up to 12 allies’

27 May 2023 2 minute read
Prime Minister Liz Truss during a press conference in the briefing room at Downing Street. Photo Daniel Leal PA Images

Liz Truss is believed to be planning to hand out knighthoods and other awards to up to 12 of her allies following her short-lived premiership.

Close supporters who helped orchestrate the former prime minister’s leadership bid are among those put forward for resignation honours, the Sun on Sunday reported.

Kwasi Kwarteng – who presided over the disastrous mini-Budget that helped sink her short-lived premiership – has not made the list, according to the paper.

List of shame

Ms Truss, whose 49 days in Downing Street made her the shortest serving prime minister in British political history, is reportedly also recommending putting forward former aides and backers for peerages.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats have called on her successor Rishi Sunak to cancel the nominations, with Angela Rayner branding it a “list of shame” coming after Ms Truss “took a wrecking ball to the economy”.

Opposition MPs have also urged the Prime Minister to block Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, which has still not been announced but is reported to include dozens of proposed recipients.

The Sunday Times reported Mr Johnson wanted to speak to Mr Sunak in a phone call in the coming days about the matter, but No 10 has said it has been made clear that it would not be appropriate to discuss honours during the conversation.

Deputy Labour leader Ms Rayner said: “Liz Truss and her Conservative co-conspirators took a wrecking ball to the economy in a disastrous six-week premiership that has left millions facing mortgage misery, but Rishi Sunak now looks set to allow her to hand out these obscene rewards for failure.

“If this Prime Minister was serious about the integrity he promised, he would be point blank refusing to rubber stamp Liz Truss’s list of shame.

“Instead of approving undeserved honours and lifetime golden goodbyes for her cheerleaders, he should be demanding the public apology she has refused to provide.”


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Mab Meirion
Mab Meirion
1 year ago

Don’t you just love the smell of napalm in the morning…

Number Four of the Five Prime Ministers of the Apocalypse…

The Beserkers who foisted this deranged person on the country should be looking at prison sentences not knighthoods…

Last edited 1 year ago by Mab Meirion
Gareth
Gareth
1 year ago

Just another normal day in the union, so beloved by Labour in Cymru, nothing new here.

George Thomas
George Thomas
1 year ago

“Liz Truss and her Conservative co-conspirators took a wrecking ball to the economy in a disastrous six-week premiership “

Why ignore what the Tories and New Labour did long before those 6weeks? It’s like they don’t understand the basics of Jenga.

Why ignore that Tories allowed a bad politicians rise to top or that a bad politician saw that the only way to become PM was to become a Tory?

Some1
Some1
1 year ago

Perhaps Liz should nominate one thousand peers just to prove how broken the system is.

Llyn
Llyn
1 year ago

Never forget that Andrew RT Davies voted for Truss to become Prime Minister and tweeted ecstatically about the disastrous Truss/Kwarteng budget that cost the UK 30 billion pounds!

Mab Meirion
Mab Meirion
1 year ago

What a scary crazy image, a cult of the gormless…

Cwm Rhondda
Cwm Rhondda
1 year ago

I’d give knighthoods to the MPs who claimed expenses to pay their speeding fines – proper scum. A knighthood to expenses fraudsters would be acceptable in the Westminster cesspit.

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