Peerages for pals: The Boris Resignation Honours List.
The News Agents
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🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
It's hard to imagine leaving a job in disrepute but then giving 20 of your mates a top honour that allows them to create the laws of this country. Well, maybe it isn't that hard to imagine. It's what Boris Johnson appears to have done with his Resignation Honours List.
Lara Spirit of the Times tells us that four sitting MPs want to accept peerages without immediately giving up their seats in the House of Commons. That's a constitutional clash for a start. And then there's the advisors who have barely reached their thirties who are being offered the mother of all accolades in the mother of all parliaments.
Do we really want our laws being made by a bunch of the former PM's friends? We speak to Leader of the Opposition in the Lords, Baroness Angela Smith. And, after the latest revelations about Charmer-in-Chief Gavin Williamson - who told a senior civil servant to 'slit his throat' but denies it was bullying - we ask what it takes to NOT get an honour from this government.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | If you've ever wondered how a Prime Minister's resignation honours list works, |
| 0:18.7 | then you might want to follow the weird story of Ross Kempsel, who a few years ago |
| 0:26.0 | did this unforgettable interview with Boris Johnson about model buses. |
| 0:33.7 | What do you do to relax? What do you do to switch off? |
| 0:36.1 | I like to paint. |
| 0:41.3 | Oh, I make things. |
| 0:44.3 | I like to... |
| 0:45.3 | What do you make? |
| 0:46.3 | I make... |
| 0:49.3 | I have a thing where I make models of... |
| 0:53.3 | We were nice in the mayor of London. We build a beautiful... I make models of... When I was in, like, where I'm there in London, we build a beautiful... |
| 0:56.0 | I make buses. |
| 0:58.0 | You make models of buses? |
| 1:00.0 | I make models of buses. |
| 1:01.0 | They're going to be in Downing Street. |
| 1:02.0 | So what I do, no, what I do make is |
| 1:04.0 | I get old, I don't know, |
| 1:08.0 | wooden crates. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.5 | Right? |
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