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This is a global player original podcast. I've got some news of my own. After much soul-searching,

I've decided not to stand as an MP at the next general election.

I love my constituents and I've loved serving them and it's been such an honour for the best part of two decades of my life.

I'm now off. My gosh, I've just said it out loud. There's no going back now.

That was Nadine Dorris, former culture secretary under Boris Johnson, announcing in February that she was standing down as an MP.

You know that thing you sometimes do where you've lined up a new job, but you don't want to tell your employer that you've already got a new post lined up for you?

Well, it seems that Nadine Doris had.

That sort of job where you have to wear a lot of ermine and your name changes.

And you get called lady.

Baroness as well.

Yeah, one of those.

Right. So we think we might have learnt from Stephen Swinford at the Times

that Boris Johnson's choiciest picks for his honours list

will get the go-ahead because Rishi Sunak is now prepared to sign them through.

All very deserving men and women, no doubt.

Well, maybe a bit of doubt. Welcome to the newsagents.

The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And it's Lewis. And we are in agents.

We're in agents. We're in agents, HQ, which is the new name of the podcast, just to

abbreviate on three letters. We are at Newsagents HQ. Well, three letters is a very good place

to start because we're going to be discussing the kind of letters that come after your names

if you're a friend of Boris Johnson. It might be an OBE or a CBE or a knighthood.

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