At London Tech Week event, PM says Johnson wanted him to over-ruled House of Lords appointments committee or to make promises to MPs who were offered peerages
An ally of Boris Johnson has accused Rishi Sunak of having “secretly” blocked peerages for Johnson’s allies, PA Media reports. Responding to Sunak’s comments this morning (see 9.53am), the ally told PA:
Rishi secretly blocked the peerages for Nadine and others. He refused to ask for them to undergo basic checks that could have taken only a few weeks or even days. That is how he kept them off the list – without telling Boris Johnson.
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