Is Boris's honours list a lesson in cronyism?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 9 June 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:18.4 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Bors and Fraser Nelson. |
| 0:26.0 | So in the last few hours Boris Johnson's resignations, |
| 0:28.6 | Honours List has now come out and Katie, there are a few surprises in there, |
| 0:32.1 | especially surprises of people who are not on the list. |
| 0:35.2 | Yes, this list has been so long in the works, if you think Boris Johnson leaving number 10 |
| 0:40.4 | last year. The fact there's been two prime ministers since then. But what is held up, |
| 0:46.4 | I mean ultimately it seems that it's because it has potential to be very politically painful |
| 0:51.3 | for Rishi Sina Khan, the Tory party. And there have been reports something I wrote about that |
| 0:55.9 | the original list or one draft, at least nearly 100 names, reports that Stanley Johnson, |
| 1:00.9 | Boris Johnson's father was at one point on the list. And also, I think probably most importantly, |
| 1:06.4 | the complexity of what to do about the sitting MPs that Boris Johnson wanted to give |
| 1:11.3 | peerages to, of which has been widely reported. But that was meant to be Nigel Adams, |
| 1:15.6 | Alistair Jack, Alex Sharma and Nadine Doris. Now this list has come out. It's been |
| 1:20.6 | slimmed down and I think there are lots of reports, such as in the FT a few months ago, that |
| 1:24.8 | officials had suggested Boris Johnson he needed to reduce the number of names. But I think what's |
| 1:30.9 | so I think a few initial thoughts, it is interesting that those MPs I just mentioned are not on the |
| 1:35.5 | list. And I think that while it's also clear to see next, say no specific deal has been made, |
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