This episode is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management.

Experience Wealth Managers who go above and beyond to guide and support you.

Kandu is more than just an attitude. It's navigating today for a brighter tomorrow.

Visit KanduWealth.com.

Hello, welcome to the Special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shorts.

I'm James Hill, and I'm joined today by Fraser Nelson and Katie Bulls.

The subject of today's podcast is Boris Johnson's Resonation on his list.

Katie, tell us why this is in the news again.

So, we reported in the spectator back in January that this list was a cause of great anxiety

amongst some in government, some in the civil servant, some who went for a receipt to see that

in terms of the names that Boris Johnson's going to put forward.

And I think I was the first to report at the time that the original list had over a hundred

names on it. At the time, I had Tory MPs who have worried it would be who's who of

ultimately Boris Johnson cronies, family members, and we had the times reporting this week

that Stanley Johnson is being put forward for the nighthood.

Now, the development by the end of the week is that the Cabinet Office, which vets their

OBEs, nighthards, those appointments, has ultimately told Boris Johnson he has to reduce this list.

So, we're now looking from around a hundred to something much more modest in terms of under 60.

Things are supposedly slightly over what Theresa May and David Cameron did.

So, that will take some of the sting out of it, but I think it still has the potential to be a

political headache for Richie Suneck. Now, ultimately, the period just had to be vetted by one body

and then the rest of the officers goes through the Cabinet Office, but it is finally, when it

...