Boris Johnson has plunged the Conservative Party back into hot water after his rollercoaster of a run as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In his final wish as an MP, Mr Johnson requested that some of his allies receive certain “privileges.” For example, Jacob Rees Mogg is now set to be knighted by the king, making him Sir Jacob Rees Mogg.
The new Prime Minister and former ally of Mr Johnson, Rishi Sunak, could block Boris Johnson’s honours list. In PMQs on Wednesday, June 14, Sir Keir Starmer went as far as accusing the Prime Minister of being “too weak” in how he reacted to this latest development in the Conservative Party.
The heated debate that went down in the House of Commons saw several notable encounters between the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition. One of the most talked-about exchanges has to be when Sir Keir Starmer said, “That means that those who threw a Downing Street party the night before the late Queen sat alone at her husband’s funeral will now receive awards from the king” Sir Keir Starmer later goes on to ask why he didn’t block the honours list.
“Prime Ministers of both parties have always upheld the convention of none interference on political honours. My predecessors may not have agreed with Labour’s choices of Tom Watson or Shami Chakrabarti, but the same precedent stood then as it does now and I’d expect a knight like him to understand that,” said Rishi Sunak, with the roar of his party behind him.
Sir Keir responded: “Honours should be for public service, not Tory cronies.” He then went on to accuse the PM of ensuring that “those who spent their time helping cover up Johnson’s lawbreaking are rewarded by becoming lawmakers for the rest of their lives“
The accusation was not well received by the PM, who went on to refer to the now-Lord Watson. Who wrongly accused several high-profile people of murder and child sex abuse in 2014. The speaker of the house, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, intervened regarding the prime minister’s comments.
Another day dawns as yet more challenges face Rishi Sunak and his government as they try to tackle their “number one” priority, inflation.
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